The Fontane Workshop: Manufacturing Realism in the Industrial Age of Print

این کتاب با رویکردی نوآورانه که تاریخ رسانه های مادی، نظریه رسانه و شعر ادبی را ترکیب می کند، روند خلاقیت نویسنده بزرگ آلمانی تئودور فونتان را بازسازی می کند.

پترا مک گیلن به دنبال فونتان به موتورخانه تولید متن خود می رود. تجزیه و تحلیل انبوهی از شواهد بایگانی ناشناخته - که شامل مجموعه‌ای از 67 دفترچه یادداشت موجود نویسنده، همراه با مجموعه‌ای از "ابزارهای کاغذی" دیگر مانند جعبه‌های مقوایی، پاکت‌ها و برگه‌ها می‌شود - مک گیلن نشان می‌دهد که چگونه فونتان

این مفهوم سازی از دفترهای نویسندگان به عنوان ابزار خلاقانه، کمک قابل توجهی به مطالعه تاریخ رسانه های نوشتاری در چندین رشته، از مطالعات آلمانی و مطالعات ادبی تا تاریخ رسانه، و به درک ما از رابطه رسانه های جمعی و ادبی می کند. خلاقیت در اواخر قرن نوزدهم.

With an innovative approach that combines material media history, media theory, and literary poetics, this book reconstructs the great German writer Theodor Fontane's creative process.

Petra McGillen follows Fontane into the engine room of his text production. Analyzing a wealth of unexplored archival evidence--which includes a collection of the author's 67 extant notebooks, along with an array of other "paper tools," such as cardboard boxes, envelopes, and slips--McGillen demonstrates how Fontane compiled his realist prose works. That is, he assembled them from premediated sources, literally with scissors and glue, in an extraordinarily inorganic and radically intertextual manner that turned "writing" into a process of ongoing remix. By exploring the far-reaching implications of Fontane's creative practices for our understanding of his authorship, originality, and poetics, this book opens up a completely new way to think about his works and, by extension, 19th-century literary realism.

This conceptualization of authors' notebooks as creative tools makes a substantial contribution to scholarship on the history of writing media in several disciplines, from German studies and literary studies to media history, and to our understanding of the relationship between mass media and literary creativity in the late 19th century.