On the Relationship of Comparative Literature to 'Strata Poetics' and 'Fundamental Poetics'

On the Relationship of Comparative Literature to 'Strata Poetics' and 'Fundamental Poetics'

Author: Wolfgang Ruttkowski

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2008-05

Total Pages: 29

ISBN-13: 3638919420

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Essay from the year 2000 in the subject Philosophy - Practical (Ethics, Aesthetics, Culture, Nature, Right, ...), grade: keine, - entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Ever since their "declaration of independence" from the national literary sciences, about a century ago, comparatists have been desperately groping for a comprehensive theory, broad enough to accommodate not only their investigations into the development and functioning of literary genres, but also their pet subject of the "mutual elucidation of the arts". These reflections are to be understood as an attempt to examine some ideas and models produced mainly in Germany after the last world war. These will be examined for their usefulness in providing such a comprehensive theory, or at least a base for the construction of such a theory. Two of these models seem to be opposed to each other ("Fundamentalpoetik" and the sociological approach). However, I hope to show that in reality they complement each other. The third model ("Strata Poetics") is still widely unknown, but could, in my view, combine the two others into a unified theory. (In: Acta Humanistica, Humanities S. No. 27, March 2000, 221-242)


Comparative Poetics

Comparative Poetics

Author: Earl Roy Miner

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1990-10-23

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0691014906

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"Comparative literature," Earl Miner writes, "clearly involves something more than comparing two great German poets, and something different from a Chinese studying French literature or a Russian studying Italian literature." But what would a true intercultural poetics be? This work proposes various ways to "study something other than what are, all things considered, the short and simple annals of one cultural parish at one historic moment." The first developed account of theories of literature from an intercultural standpoint, the book shows that an "originative" or "foundational" poetics develops in cultures with explicit poetics when critics define the nature and conditions of literature in terms of the then most esteemed genredrama, lyric, or narrative. Earl Miner demonstrates that these definitions and inferences from them constitute useful bases for comparative poetics.


Essays on aesthetics, poetics and terminology of literary studies

Essays on aesthetics, poetics and terminology of literary studies

Author: Wolfgang Ruttkowski

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2007-10-26

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 3638838900

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Anthology from the year 2007 in the subject Art - Art Theory, General, , language: English, abstract: Since I have always been interested in “eccentric” topics, my essays may be still of interest and relevant. For example, I wrote the first study of the four main types of the literary chanson, representing an expansion of Emil Staiger’s ‘basic concepts of poetics’ thus including the audience centered stance where all genres excluded by Staiger’s categories can be subsumed that are; presented a systematic comparison and synthesis of Ingarden’s and Hartmann’s literary strata and its usefulness in the psychology of art; provided analysis and integration of literary concepts such as ‘stratum,’ ‘structure,’ and ‘genre;’ wrote an extensive comparative study of literary terminology expanding its scope beyond the European realm; undertook a stratum analysis of musical art forms, and attempted a description of the degree of abstraction in Asian painting and non - representational art. Most of my articles written in German are being published simultaneously by the same publisher, except for those concerning the teaching of literature and cultural studies. My tri - lingual (German/English/Japanese) homepage composed by my students includes a list of my publications. It can be found under http://www.cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~wolf. Weil ich mich immer für „ausgefallene“ Themen interessiert habe, finden meine Aufsätze vielleicht noch Interesse und sind nicht veraltet. (Sie befassen sich erstmalig mit: Einer Untersuchung und Beschreibung des lit. Chansons als Gattung sowie der Abgrenzung seiner vier Haupttypen; einer Erweiterung der Staigerschen „Grundbegriffe“ auf die „publikumsbezogene Grundhaltung“, in der sich alle Gattungen unterbringen lassen, die in seinem System keinen Platz fanden; einem systematischer Vergleich und der Synthese von Ingardens und Hartmanns Schichtensystemen und deren Anwendung auf die Kunstpsychologie; der Analyse und Integration von Literaturbegriffen wie „Schicht“, „Struktur“ und „Gattung“; einem umfassenden Vergleich von Literaturterminologien über die europäischen hinaus; der schichtentheoretischen Analyse des Musikkunstwerks sowie der Beschreibung der Abstraktionsgrade in asiatischer Malerei und ungegenständlicher Kunst). Im gleichen Verlag erscheint gleichzeitig ein Sammelband meiner in deutscher Sprache geschriebenen Artikel (außer denen zur Literaturdidaktik und Kulturkunde). Meine von meinen Studenten angefertigte dreisprachige (dt.,engl.,jp.) Homepage (http://www.cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~wolf) enthält eine Publikationsliste.


How Literary Worlds Are Shaped

How Literary Worlds Are Shaped

Author: Bo Pettersson

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2016-09-12

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 3110484935

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Literary studies still lack an extensive comparative analysis of different kinds of literature, including ancient and non-Western. How Literary Worlds Are Shaped. A Comparative Poetics of Literary Imagination aims to provide such a study. Literature, it claims, is based on individual and shared human imagination, which creates literary worlds that blend the real and the fantastic, mimesis and genre, often modulated by different kinds of unreliability. The main building blocks of literary worlds are their oral, visual and written modes and three themes: challenge, perception and relation. They are blended and inflected in different ways by combinations of narratives and figures, indirection, thwarted aspirations, meta-usages, hypothetical action as well as hierarchies and blends of genres and text types. Moreover, literary worlds are not only constructed by humans but also shape their lives and reinforce their sense of wonder. Finally, ten reasons are given in order to show how this comparative view can be of use in literary studies. In sum, How Literary Worlds Are Shaped is the first study to present a wide-ranging and detailed comparative account of the makings of literary worlds.


Transcultural Poetics and the Concept of the Poet

Transcultural Poetics and the Concept of the Poet

Author: Ranjan Ghosh

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-12-08

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1317576675

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Critiquing the politics and dynamics of the transcultural poetics of reading literature, this book demonstrates an ambitious understanding of the concept of the poet across a wide range of traditions – Anglo-American, German, French, Arabic, Chinese, Sanskrit, Bengali, Urdu – and philosophies of creativity that are rarely studied side by side. Ghosh carves out unexplored spaces of negotiation and intersections between literature, aesthetics and philosophy. The book demonstrates an original method of ‘global comparison’ that displaces the relatively staid and historicist categories that have underpinned comparative literature approaches so far, since they rarely dare stray beyond issues of influence and schools, or new 'world literature' approaches that affirm cosmopolitanism and transnationalism as overarching themes. Going beyond comparatism and reformulating the chronological patterns of reading, this bold book introduces new methodologies of reading literature to configure the concept of the poet from Philip Sidney to T. S Eliot, reading the notion of the poet through completely new theoretical and epistemic triggers. Commonly known texts and sometimes well-circulated ideas are subjected to refreshing reading in what the author calls the ‘transcultural now’ and (in)fusionised transpoetical matrices. By moving between theories of poetry and literature that come from widely separated times, contexts, and cultures, this book shows the relevance of canonical texts to a theory of the future as marked by post-global concerns.


The Challenge of Comparative Literature

The Challenge of Comparative Literature

Author: Claudio Guillén

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13:

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In this work, Claudio Guillen meditates on the elusive field of comparative literature and its vicissitudes since the early 19th century.