Arts of Connection : Poetry, History, Epochality / Karen S. Feldman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feldman, Karen S., Author.

Series:

Paradigms (Walter de Gruyter & Co.) ; Volume 9.

Paradigms ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historical criticism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

At the intersection of literary theory, philosophy of history and phenomenology, Arts of Connection: Poetry, History, Epochality explores the representation of connections between events in literary, historical and philosophical narratives. Events in a story can be seen as ordered according to proximate causation, which leads diachronically from one event to the next; and they can also be understood in view of the structure of the narrative as a whole - for instance in terms of the unity of plot. Feldman argues that there exists an essential narrative tension between these two kinds of connection, i.e. between the overarching arrangement or plot that holds together events from "outside," as it were, in order to produce an intelligible whole; and the portrayal of one-by-one, "interstitial" connections between events within the narrative. Arts of Connection demonstrates, by means of exemplary moments in Aristotle and classical German poetics, eighteenth-century philosophy of history, and twentieth-century phenomenology, that the task of connection is a fraught one, insofar as the formal unity of narrative competes or interferes with the representation of one-by-one connections between events, and vice versa.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Introduction: On Plot and the One-by-One

1. Unexpected Yet Connected: On Aristotle's Poetics and its Heterodox Receptions

2. Contingency, Connection, and Possible Worlds: History and Poetry in Gottsched's Versuch einer critischen Dichtkunst

3. Cognitio historica between Kant and Meier

4. "On the Wings of Imagination": Wholeness and Spontaneity in Kant's Philosophy of Universal History

5. Not Benjamin's Ranke: On the Aesthetics of Historicism

6. Heidegger and the Plot of Metaphysics

7. Arendt's Epochal Phenomenology: History and the New

8. Speaking for the Past: On Begriffsgeschichte and the Language of Other Epochs

Conclusion: Wholeness and its Sabotage

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9783110630947

311063094X

9783110631494

3110631490

OCLC:

1114783259