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    The Poetics of Historical Perspectivism: Breitinger's Critische Dichtkunst and the Neoclassic Tradition

    The Poetics of Historical Perspectivism by Kowalik, Jill Anne;

    Breitinger's Critische Dichtkunst and the Neoclassic Tradition

    Series: University of North Carolina Studies in Germanic Languages and Literature;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher The University of North Carolina Press
    • Date of Publication 1 May 2020
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781469656625
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages168 pages
    • Size 228x152x9 mm
    • Weight 243 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    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.

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    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.

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