The Poetics of Historical Perspectivism: Breitinger's Critische Dichtkunst and the Neoclassic TraditionUniversity of North Carolina Press, 1992 - 148 pages Jill Kowalik reevaluates J. J. Breitinger's Critische Dichtkunst (1740) with regard to a heretofore neglected aspect of aesthetics in the early eighteenth century, namely how poesis and historiography could increasingly come to resemble each other in their assumptions, purposes, and methods of representation. The central argument states that historians of this period began to utilize the concept of historical perspectivism only after its development as an interpretive tool by the aesthetic thinkers of the early Enlightenment. The Critische Dichtkunst is examined in terms of three disparate traditions: the modern reception of Aristotle's Poetics, Horace's Ars poetica, and the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns; the model of consciousness proposed by Leibniz that describes the mind as a ceaseless process of historical intellective integration; and the German reception of French neoclassical authors, especially Dubos, whose notion of historical probability was radicalized by Breitinger and later appropriated by poets and historians alike. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Poetic Production and Breitingers Notion | 37 |
Poetic Reception and la vraisemblance historique | 62 |
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actually aesthetic ancient anders André Dacier argues Aristotelian Aristotle Aristotle's Begriffe Brei Breitinger says Breitinger's Breitinger's notion Breitinger's poetics chapter Chladenius Chladenius's Christian Wolff comparison concept context Critias criticism critique Critische Dichtkunst Dacier definition Dinge discussion distinction divine Dubos Dubos's edition eighteenth century epideictic Erfindung Essais existence fait Fontenelle Gedancken Gemüthe German Gleichnis-Abhandlung Gottsched Gottsched's Herrmann historian historical Homer Horace Horace's Horatian ideas Iliad imitation intellective interpretation Johann Elias Schlegels knowledge Kunst language Leibniz literary means metaphor metaphysical Metaphysik mind modern möglich monad Monadologie Muratori muß Nachahmung nature necessary truths neoclassic Neoclassicism Neoplatonic object painting passage perception perspective perspectivism Plotinian poesis poet Poeten poetic representation poetische Mahlerey poetry Pope's possible worlds Quintilian Rapin reader recipient reference Renaissance rhetorical seyn skiagraphic Szondi Théodicée things tion translation vérités Verstand vivid vrai vrai-semblable Wahre Wahrheit Wahrscheinliche Wegelin Wellbery Witz Wolff wondrous words Wort