Kalendergeschichte and fait divers, the poetics of circumscribed space
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This study analyzes the poetics of two small literary forms: the German Kalendergeschichte and the French fait divers. Intimately connected with more prominent genres like the novella, the aphorism, or the Poème en Prose, these ephemeral forms distinguish themselves through their specific material history, originating as publishing exigencies—stopgaps or infill for blank space. In the German case, on calendar pages. In the French, on the white space in between newspaper headlines. It is the play with and within these very concrete, material and traditional constraints that constitutes their literary appeal. Poets from Heinrich von Kleist to Charles Baudelaire, and E.T.A. Hoffmann to Stéphane Mallarmé all influenced the development of both genres significantly. But it was two outstanding authors in particular, Johann Peter Hebel and Félix Fénéon, that eventually made the pragmatic restrictions of the Kalendergeschichte and the fait divers the source of a genuine—and genuinely new—poetics. James Joyce, Franz Kafka, and Bertolt Brecht integrated these formal innovations into their own oeuvre. Thinkers like Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merlau-Ponty, or Roland Barthes reflected on their poetico-philosophic power. The study covers the general history of both genres, a close reading of the specific formal changes brought about by Hebel and Fénéon respectively, as well as a broad view of the historico-cultural context that produced them. Whereas the first part is focused on the Kalendergeschichte and Johann Peter Hebel's Der Rheinländische Hausfreund, the second part traces the fait divers and Félix Fénéon's Nouvelles en trois lignes in particular.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2011 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Goppelsröder, Fabian |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Comparative Literature |
| Primary advisor | Greene, Roland, 1957- |
| Primary advisor | Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich |
| Thesis advisor | Greene, Roland, 1957- |
| Thesis advisor | Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich |
| Thesis advisor | Cohen, Margaret |
| Advisor | Cohen, Margaret |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Fabian Goppelsroder. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Comparative Literature. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2011. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2011 by Fabian Dominik Goppelsroder
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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