The Vogue of Literary Theories in Germany from 1500 to 1730

Gillet, Joseph E.

doi:10.1086/387067

Modern Philology

1916

DOI: 10.1086/387067

|View full text |Cite

The Vogue of Literary Theories in Germany from 1500 to 1730

Joseph E. Gillet¹

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...

Citation Types

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Year Published

2021

Publication Types

Select...

Article1

Relationship

Self Cite0

Independent1

Authors

Journals

Cited by 1 publication

(1 citation statement)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…185-209) andMarks (1968: esp. 38-47); for Germany,Gillet (1916) andDrux (1976). As this venerable list of studies suggests, monographic treatments of the subject are rare and out of fashion.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Non per instituir altri’? Attitudes to Rule-Following in Sixteenth-Century Poetics

Hetherington¹

2021

Classical Receptions Journal

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Literary historians tend to associate a poetics of rule-following with seventeenth-century neoclassicism, and with the sixteenth-century Italian commentators and theorists on whom the neoclassical critics drew; but thinking about the value and limitations of rules for writing is a pervasive and philosophically distinctive feature of pre-modern poetics more generally. Drawing on texts from different national literatures, on the literary theory of classical antiquity, on reflections on rule-following in non-literary early modern disciplines, and on some of the rich thinking on rules by modern philosophers, this article attempts to identify and describe some of the distinct kinds of rule-making and rule-following that constituted the discipline and practice of poetics in the sixteenth-century. To do so it focuses on three texts: Jodocus Badius Ascensius’ edition of Horace’s Ars poetica (1503), which divides the text up into ‘regulae’; Julius Caesar Scaliger’s Poetices libri septem (1561), which probes the ways in which ancient texts might function as ‘normae’ to which literary practice might be referred; and Samuel Daniels’ Musophilus (1599), which deeply if idiosyncratically meditates on the poet’s obligations and freedoms, and voices a profound scepticism about a literary practice that conforms to rules inherited from prior writers or imposed by critics.

show abstract

mentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Non per instituir altri’? Attitudes to Rule-Following in Sixteenth-Century Poetics

Hetherington¹

2021

Classical Receptions Journal

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.

Contact Info

customersupport@researchsolutions.com

10624 S. Eastern Ave., Ste. A-614

Henderson, NV 89052, USA

Blog Terms and Conditions API Terms Privacy Policy Contact Cookie Preferences Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information

Made with 💙 for researchers

Part of the Research Solutions Family.

The Vogue of Literary Theories in Germany from 1500 to 1730

Cited by 1 publication

References 0 publications

‘Non per instituir altri’? Attitudes to Rule-Following in Sixteenth-Century Poetics

‘Non per instituir altri’? Attitudes to Rule-Following in Sixteenth-Century Poetics

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About