Literature on Trial : The Emergence of Critical Discourse in Germany, Poland and Russia, 1700-1800.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (282 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Genre, Discourse, History -- 2 Criticism and the Genus Universum -- 3 Criteria in Focus: Forms and Transformations -- 4 Looking Ahead -- Chapter 1: German Criticism -- 1 Coming of Age -- 2 Overcoming Dogma: Periodicals and Review Criticism -- 3 Toward a Critical 'Play Drive': Generic Vicissitudes -- 4 Textual Analyses -- (a) J.Ch. Gottsched -- (b) J.G. Hamann -- (c) G.E. Lessing -- (d) J.G. von Herder -- (e) G.A. Bürger -- (f) J.W. von Goethe -- (g) F. Schlegel -- Chapter 2: Criticism in Poland -- 1 A Discursive Inheritance -- 2 Profiling Polish Criticism -- 3 Textual Analyses -- (a) J.A. Jabłonowski -- (b) A.K. Czartoryski -- (c) J. Szymanowski -- (d) F.N. Golański -- (e) F.K. Dmochowski -- 4 Excursus -- Chapter 3: Criticism in Russia -- 1 The Emperor's Tongue: Russian Literary Language -- 2 Criticism's 'Generic Unconscious' -- 3 Parody and Polemics -- 4 Textual Analyses -- (a) M.V. Lomonosov -- (b) A.P. Sumarokov -- (c) V.K. Trediakovskii -- (d) N.M. Karamzin -- Conclusion -- 1 Generic Migrants -- 2 Time Travellers -- 3 Looking Back -- Notes -- Selected Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Analysing works by Lessing, Goethe, and Karamzin, among others, Literature on Trial brings a fresh theoretical perspective to the links between genre as a discursive strategy and socio-political life.