Kritik des Geschmacks: Entwurf einer historisch-materialistischen Literaturtheorie und Ästhetik
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In: Romanistik 2
In: Welten Ostasiens / Worlds of East Asia / Mondes de l'Extrême Orient
Which relationship should, must, or can creation in language (fiction) have to creation outside of language (reality)? How do theoretical notions of literary art change when reality drastically changes? This volume investigates these questions in relation to the literature and social history of Japan from 1850 to 1890.
In: Deutschland Archiv, Band 17, Heft 11, S. 1164-1179
ISSN: 0012-1428
In: Europäische Hochschulschriften
In: Stuttgarter Arbeiten zur Germanistik 33
In: Pocket 49
In: Arbeiterliteratur
In: Europäische Hochschulschriften
In: Reihe 13, Französische Sprache und Literatur = Langue et littérature françaises = French language and literature 61
In: Textausgaben zur frühen sozialistischen Literatur in Deutschland 27
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It is Aristotle to whom we owe the first philosophical theory of poetic art fully extant from antiquity. He recognized the origin of art and poetry in man's capacity for theory and his pleasure in it, for he considered imitation (mímēsis) as the beginning and basis of cognition. He understood imitation not as a mere act of copying but as the realization and re-implementation of a single person's general disposition to act, which is to say his or her disposition to turn towards the world aiming to seek pleasure or to avoid pain. The poet's task is to represent such a way of acting, real or fictitious, in some medium in a certain way. An orderly representation of this kind starts from an (again, real or fictitious) person's decision to prefer or avoid something. It closely follows this agent's 'quality' (poiótēs), which is to say his or her character. Thereby, the poet can achieve a congruence of all parts of the entire action with one another and with the whole. This is what, in Aristotle's view, is the poet's task. At the time of the reception of Aristotle's "Poetics" around 1500 AD, the understanding of poetry was widely shaped by Horace and Cicero and hence had a strongly rhetorical character. For Horace, it is true, the poet ought to be an imitator, as well, even though an 'erudite' imitator. In Horace's view, however, his knowledge regards the general manners of man. Therefore, the poet, gifted as such with 'prophetic eye' and 'wisdom,' has the ability to express this knowledge in vivid and concrete terms (communia proprie dicere). This knowledge, which men, parents, brothers, politicians, judges, military commanders, etc. use to act was considered to be learnable according to the rules of rhetoric, although it is only by the poet's individual talent that it can become art. It was believed that what Aristotle had called the 'probable' could be equated with this skill based on acquired experience and genius. As a consequence of this reinterpretation, Aristotelian probability, which makes a certain man talk ...
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