Critica

Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der Literaturkritik zwischen Quintilian und Thomasius
Erscheinungsjahr 1995
ISBN: 978-90-04-10276-7
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Deutsch, Band 62, 436 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 813 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

In answering questions such as what is 'modern' in literary criticism since the beginnings of the Early Modern age, this book does not follow the lines of René Wellek's famous History of Modern Criticism. It does not re-examine the history of literary theories and poetics. It rather focuses on the concepts and uses of what can be called 'practical criticism' (Buchkritik) and the historicity of its institutional and categorical frames of references.
Viewing them as fundamental structures of literary production, reception and communication, this study traces the emergence of a temporalization of cultural processing, the periodical organization of a critical response as published in the new medium of the journal, and the development of different uses and functions of the literary canon.
In analysis, two basic paradigms of criticism have to be confronted: the classical model of a critica perennis, as part of grammatica as an institution of learning, and the new conception and practice of critique mondaine, which emerges as an institution in its own right during the 16th and 17th centuries in Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Über Autor(innen)

Herbert Jaumann, Dr.Phil. (1974) in German literature (University of Munich), Habil. 1988 (University of Bielefeld), is Professor of Early Modern German literature at the University of Greifswald. His publications include editions and studies on authors and topics of German learning and literature in their European contexts, including Wieland, Goethe, Mercier, Rousseau in Germany.