Textkörper und Textbedeutung. Über die Aggregatszustände von Literatur, mit einigen Beispielen aus der Geschichte des Faust-Stoffes

The Literary Canon in the Age of New Media

“…Only six of the contributions treat canon in the dominant Anglophone mode, that is, by discussing it in terms of race, class, and gender. Only a few of the other contributions completely disregard the Anglophone cultural studies perspective; most of them try to reconcile it with aesthetic questions (Assmann 1998;Eibl 1998;Winko 1998). The consensus among the contributors seems to be that, as the title of the volume implies, canon is a more complex phenomenon than previously acknowledged.…”

“…The second line aims at identifying essential categories of canonization, usually deriving them from Immanuel Kant's notion of the aesthetic autonomy of art in Kritik der Urteilskraft (Critique of Judgment ) (1968 [1790]). Manfred Engel (2007: 31) thus identifies in canonization the aspects of formal quality, coherence, complexity, and semantic polyvalence, a list sometimes reduced to a single factor (complexity in Eibl 1998: 69 or polyvalence in Specht 2012. But this article will focus on the third, pragmatist line of inquiry.…”

Testi fatti a pezzi. Il culto mediale come ars excerpendi

“…La nozione di "canone selvaggio" (wilder Kanon) è tratta daEibl (1998; 60-77) Fiorentino (2009). ha il merito di aver esteso, secondo modalità che paiono legittime e produttive, la portata di un concetto nato in riferimento alla letteratura.5 Se l'approccio di Eco ben si adatta alle opere di finzione (è nato per questo), con gli opportuni aggiustamenti potrebbe applicarsi in modo efficace, sebbene non esclusivo, anche a oggetti e personaggi del mondo reale.…”