A History of Poetics: German Scholarly Aesthetics and Poetics in International Context, 1770-1960

Frontmatter\n......Page 2
Contents......Page 12
I. Introduction\n......Page 16
1. Poetics as Field of Knowledge......Page 22
2. Text Types and Periods......Page 34
3. Methodology......Page 40
II. Aesthetics and Academic Poetics in Germany\n......Page 48
1. Eclectic Poetics: Popular Philosophy (1770–1790)......Page 55
2. Transcendental Poetics and Beyond: Immanuel Kant’s Critical Successors (1790–1800)......Page 78
3. Historical and Genetic Poetics: Johann Justus Herwig (1774), August Wilhelm Schlegel (1801–1803/1809–1811) and Johann Gottfried Herder’s Heritage......Page 91
4. Logostheological Poetics Beyond Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling: Friedrich Ast (1805), Joseph Loreye (1801/1802, 1820) and Johann Jakob Wagner (1839, 1840)......Page 104
5. Post-Idealist Poetics......Page 115
6. Pre-Empirical and Empirical Poetics since 1820......Page 144
7. Comprehensive Poetics......Page 191
8. Poetics and “Geisteswissenschaft”......Page 201
9. The Turn Towards Language: Theodor A. Meyer (1901)......Page 220
10. Phenomenological and Ontological Poetics: Edmund Husserl and Roman Ingarden (1931)......Page 226
11. Anthropology, Existentialism and Hermeneutics: the Influence of Søren Kierkegaard and Martin Heidegger......Page 234
12. The After-Life of the ‘Artwork of Language’ (“Sprachkunstwerk”)......Page 257
13. Poetics under the Fascist Regime......Page 264
14. New Approaches in a Reproductive Era......Page 292
15. Conclusion: Tendencies, Trends and Sunken Ideas......Page 303
III. Bibliographies and Prints\n......Page 314
1. Bibliography of German Poetics\n......Page 317
2. Selected Bibliography of German Aesthetics\n......Page 363
3. Selected Bibliography of Early German Literary Theory\n......Page 384
4. Selected Bibliography of Non-German Rhetoric, Poetics and Aesthetics\n......Page 391
5. Other Primary Material\n......Page 406
6. Research Literature\n......Page 418
7. Prints\n......Page 448
Index of Names\n......Page 454
Subject Index\n......Page 464