Published since November 15, 2012

Scientia Poetica

Jahrbuch für Geschichte der Literatur und Wissenschaften / Yearbook for the History of Literature, Humanities and Sciences

ISSN: 1868-9418

Edited by: Andrea Albrecht, Lutz Danneberg, Gerhard Regn, Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann, Friedrich Vollhardt

Editorial Board: Barbara Mahlmann, Moritz Epple, Monika Fick, Anthony Grafton, Herbert Jaumann, Diethelm Klippel, Wilhelm Kühlmann, Jan-Dirk Müller, Hugh Barr Nisbet, Wolfgang Proß, Jörg Schönert, Peter Strohschneider

About this journal

The yearbook has been in publication since 1997 and has the task of applying the fields of literary and scientific history to one another. In doing so, the yearbook reacts to the expansion of problems and methods which have emerged in both disciplines over the last decades. Building on the insight that literary-artistic and (natural)-scientific discourse are not two separate spheres and cannot be properly described separate of one another, the yearbook offers a transdisciplinary discussion forum for the historical analysis of the interactions between the (natural) sciences and literature (studies) in theory development and reflection from the late Middle Ages to the present. One of the topics of the yearbook is the canon of the sciences, which was founded by medieval universities and which in recent times has been expanded to include disciplines such as the natural sciences, psychology, sociology and the science of history. The field of topics chosen for the yearbook reflects a conscious decision to avoid any thematic limitations of these diverse times, disciplines and aspects.

The languages of publication are German and English. SCIENTIA POETICA is planned and structured by its editors as well as by an international committee of renowned scientists.

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Volume 26 Issue 1

November 2022

Publicly Available November 22, 2022

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Page range: V-VIII

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November 22, 2022

Jörg Jochen Berns und Thomas Rahn (Hgg.): Projektierte Himmel

Pauline Julia Preisler

Page range: 515-523

November 22, 2022

Reto Rössler: Weltgebäude. Poetologien kosmologischen Wissens der Aufklärung

Olav Krämer

Page range: 523-532

November 22, 2022

Tobias Fuchs: Die Kunst des Büchermachens. Autorschaft und Materialität der Literatur zwischen 1765 und 1815

Sebastian Böhmer

Page range: 532-533

November 22, 2022

Nicola Gess, Agnes Hoffmann und Annette Kappeler (Hgg.): Belebungskünste. Praktiken lebendiger Darstellung in Literatur, Kunst und Wissenschaft um 1800

Sarah Goeth

Page range: 533-542

November 22, 2022

Friedrich Carl Forberg: Philosophische Schriften. Bd. 1: Schriften, Dokumente, Briefe. Bd. 2: Einleitung, Kommentar, Register. Hg. v. Guido Naschert

Arne Klawitter

Page range: 542-547

November 22, 2022

Kritische Robert Walser-Ausgabe, Abt. VI Mikrogramme, Bd. 2: Mikrogramme 1925 (I), hg. von Angela Thut, Fabian Grossenbacher, Christian Walt u. a.

Claus Zittel

Page range: 547-559

November 22, 2022

Uwe Maximilian Korn: Von der Textkritik zur Textologie. Geschichte der neugermanistischen Editionsphilologie bis 1970

Page range: 560-568

November 22, 2022

Adressverzeichnis

Page range: 569-570

Publicly Available August 10, 2023

Titelei

Page range: I-IV

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Publicly Available August 10, 2023

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Page range: V-VIII

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Abhandlungen

August 10, 2023

Americana bei Jean Bodin und Johann Fischart, Hexen bei Jean de Léry

Zur Funktionalisierung indigener Völker im dämonologischen Diskurs

Helge Perplies

Page range: 1-18

Abstract

The scope of Early Modern Demonology is universal, for the perceived threat of the devil is omnipresent, stretching through time and space. This article examines various utilizations of the description of central and south American indigenous peoples in demonological discourse. By means of three closely related examples, I will demonstrate the discursive conflation of deviant behavior in Europe and in America through comparisons and transferences: Jean Bodin’s Démonomanie des Sorciers (1580), its German translation by Johann Fischart (1581/1586), and Jean de Léry’s writings, especially his Histoire d’un voyage (1578/1585). Within this discursive nexus, Léry compares the American Indigenes to European Catholics, whereas Bodin compares them to European witches - and Fischart completes this argumentative triangle by calling for European Catholics to be held accountable for comparable acts in the same way as European witches.

August 10, 2023

Dialogische Evidenz

Anschaulichkeit und ›Gegenwart‹ im historischen Dialogroman der Spätaufklärung

Jana Vijayakumaran

Page range: 19-48

Abstract

In the late 18 th century, a new genre emerged in German literature: the historical drama novel. Presenting historic events through the speech of their actors, the historical drama novel sets new accents in the field of literary historiography. Functionally, the dialogical mode correlates with a concept of evidence in which historiographical and poetological premises of the late Enlightenment intersect. On the basis of exemplary novels, this article scrutinizes the conceptual reference horizon of the historical drama novel. The focus thus lies on the conditions and implications of a hybrid genre that displays the interactions of late Enlightened historiography and poetics on a literary form level.

August 10, 2023

Gustav Freytags lateinische Qualifikationsschriften De initiis scenicae poesis apud Germanos (1838) und De Hrosuitha poetria (1839)

Vorarbeiten zu Freytags kulturgeschichtlichem, nationalpädagogischem und literarischem Programm

Isabella Walser-Bürgler

Page range: 49-82

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The article investigates Gustav Freytag’s dissertation De initiis scenicae poesis apud Germanos [On the beginnings of dramatic poetry in Germany] and his habilitation De Hrosuitha poetria [On the poetess Hrotsvitha], written and published in 1838 and 1839, respectively. Usually disregarded in analyses of Freytag’s oeuvre as insignificant minor texts or pointless Latin writings among his otherwise exclusively German historiographical and literary production, they serve, in a nutshell, as early comprehensive samples of his life-long approach to cultural historiography and German literature. More precisely, one could term them the ›groundwork‹ constitutive for many of his later efforts as a historian and author. Apart from dissecting Freytag’s qualification papers in this respect for the first time, the article also expands on the institutional framework of early nineteenth-century university education in Germany and its upheld practice of Latin scientific discourse.

August 10, 2023

Expressionism and Deutsche Physik: Gottfried Benn, Hugo Dingler and »The Collapse of Science«, 1927–1933

Avraham Rot

Page range: 83-124

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This article demonstrates that Gottfried Benn’s critical reflections on physics and mathematics in his prose writings between 1927-1933 were substantially inspired by a 1926 book entitled Der Zusammenbruch der Wissenschaft und der Primat der Philosophie and authored by the philosopher of science Hugo Dingler, an ardent opponent of Albert Einstein’s relativity theory who came to play a leading role in the movement known as Deutsche Physik during the Third Reich. This underexplored dimension of Benn’s science critique attests to the depth of his involvement in the intellectual-ideological discourse accompanying the emergence of National Socialism. The historical unfolding of Benn’s relation to physics and mathematics after 1933, however, highlights the shared vulnerability of expressionism and these ›exact sciences‹ to being interchangeably denounced as ›abstract‹, ›degenerate‹ and ›Jewish‹ on the one hand and the divergent fates of art and natural science under National Socialism on the other. This is demonstrated by way of a new reading of the essay Bekenntnis zum Expressionismus, published in November 1933, where Benn surprisingly moved away from the critique of modern physics and mathematics and towards an identification of expressionism with these fields.

August 10, 2023

Bezugnahmen auf die Textwelt

Untersuchungen zu Handlungstypen in der literaturwissenschaftlichen Interpretationspraxis

Simone Winko

Page range: 125-166

Abstract

This article is focused on a practice in interpretive texts that is as common and unavoidable as it is rarely explored: the practice of referring to the fictional world of literary texts. It presents an approach to conceptualize and analyse this practice. Instead of the category ›describing versus interpreting‹ usually used in systematic studies, smaller-scale categories more oriented towards the linguistic surface of the texts are proposed in order to distinguish the referring acts and to be able to capture their diversity. For this purpose, it is useful to ask how the references relate to the literary text and which speech act is in the centre of attention in each case. The article is based on the analysis of a larger corpus of literary interpretation texts and aims at a better understanding of the professional practice.

Wiedergelesen

August 10, 2023

Abschied von der Wissenschaftslehre nach hundert Jahren

Max Weber und die Methodologie der Sozialwissenschaften

Hans-Peter Müller

Page range: 167-190

Forschungsdiskussion I

August 10, 2023

Grabenkämpfe und Brückenschläge

Interdisziplinarität in der Praxis

Andrea Albrecht, Franziska Bomski

Page range: 191-200

August 10, 2023

Interdisciplinary Collaboration

Insights from Art-Science, Digital Humanities, and SHAPE-ID

Julie Thompson Klein

Page range: 201-214

August 10, 2023

Die Operationalisierung als interdisziplinäre Schnittstelle der Digital Humanities

Benjamin Krautter

Page range: 215-244

August 10, 2023

Leichter gesagt als getan?

Ein Bericht aus der interdisziplinären Praxis zwischen Linguistik und Medizin

Yvonne Ilg, Anke Maatz

Page range: 245-262

August 10, 2023

Inter-, Trans-, and Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Anthropocene as a Challenge for Literary Studies

Gabriele Dürbeck

Page range: 263-280

August 10, 2023

Interdilettantismus

Zum Ethos wissenschaftlicher Grenzgänge und zur Geltungskultur interdisziplinärer Arbeit

Andrea Albrecht

Page range: 281-306

August 10, 2023

Interdisziplinarität oder Einheit der Wissenschaften?

Zur Geschichte der Zeitschrift Studium Generale unter besonderer Berücksichtigung eines ihrer prominentesten Leser

Rüdiger Zill

Page range: 307-338

August 10, 2023

Interdisziplinäre Disproportionen

Eine Kritik der Literature and Science Studies am Beispiel der chaostheoretischen Musil-Forschung

Franziska Bomski

Page range: 339-360

Forschungsdiskussion II

August 10, 2023

Vorder- und Hinterbühnen der Germanistik (Fortsetzung)

Das Verhältnis von öffentlicher und privater Kommunikation aus fachgeschichtlicher Perspektive

Andrea Albrecht, Helene Kraus, Kristina Mateescu, Carlos Spoerhase

Page range: 361-368

August 10, 2023

Frühneuzeitphilologie zwischen Verwissenschaftlichung und Popularisierung

Max von Waldbergs Kollektaneen und Publikationen zur Volksliedtradition des 17. Jahrhunderts

Fiona Walter

Page range: 369-396

August 10, 2023

Tradition und Zäsur

Die umkämpfte Minor-Nachfolge an der Wiener Germanistik 1912–1914 und ihre kulturelle Bedeutung

Elisabeth Grabenweger

Page range: 397-428

August 10, 2023

»Linkssengleaner«

Marie Luise Gansberg, Jost Hermand und die ›Sengle-Schule‹

Sandra Schell, Yvonne Zimmermann

Page range: 429-470

August 10, 2023

Walter Müller-Seidels unveröffentlichtes Typoskript Die Situation der deutschen Germanistik. Gedanken zur Münchner Tagung 1966

Anna Axtner-Borsutzky

Page range: 471-490

August 10, 2023

Was wird hier eigentlich gespielt? Das Theater unserer Fachgeschichte

Bühnengeschehen und Beobachtungsverhältnisse

Holger Dainat

Page range: 491-504

August 10, 2023

Rezensionen

Page range: 505-568

August 10, 2023

Adressverzeichnis

Page range: 569-570

August 10, 2023

Erratum zu: »Linkssengleaner«

Marie Luise Gansberg, Jost Hermand und die ›Sengle-Schule‹

Sandra Schell, Yvonne Zimmermann

Page range: 571-572

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Editorial

Editors' addresses:

Prof. Dr. Andrea Albrecht, Universität Heidelberg, Germanistisches Seminar, Hauptstr. 207-209, D-69117 Heidelberg (Redaktion)

Prof. Dr. Lutz Danneberg, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät II, Institut für deutsche Literatur, Unter den Linden 6, D-10099 Berlin

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Regn, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Institut für Italienische Philologie, Ludwigstraße 25, D-80539 München

Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann, Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Philosophie (WE 1), Habelschwerdter Allee 30, D-14195 Berlin

Prof. Dr. Friedrich Vollhardt, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Institut für Deutsche Philologie, Schellingstr. 3 RG, D-80799 München

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Online ISSN: 1868-9418
Print ISSN: 1431-5041
Type: Yearbook
Languages: German, English
Publisher: De Gruyter
First published: November 15, 2012
Publication Frequency: 1 Issue per Year
Audience: Academics (Literary Studies), Departments, Libraries
Keywords: Deutschland/ Literatur, Literaturgeschichte; Wissenschaftsgeschichte