Arts of Connection
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Karen S. Feldman
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
Karen S. Feldman, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Reviews
Literaturtheorie, die auf die Frage, wie Geschichte(n) erzählt und gelesen wird bzw.
werden, eine hochreflektierte Antwort gibt. Dass diese Frage nicht zum ‚Wie‘ des Erzählens, also
zum Diskurs, sondern zum bisher weitgehend vernachlässigten ‚Was‘ des Erzählens, also zur
Geschichte (histoire; plot) führt, weist in die Zukunft der Narratologie. Ich habe dieses Buch
mit großer Aufmerksamkeit, Spannung und Bewunderung gelesen, ja mit regelrechter Lust an
Feldmans hohem Abstraktionsniveau, das sich von einer kulturwissenschaftlich weichgespülten Prosa selbstbewusst unterscheidet." Frauke Berndt in: Zeitschrift für Germanistik, NF 3/2021, 580-583.
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments
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Contents
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Introduction: On Plot and the One-by-One
1 - Part I: Poetry: Necessity and Plot in Aristotle and Eighteenth-Century German Criticism
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1. Unexpected Yet Connected: On Aristotle’s Poetics and its Heterodox Receptions
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2. Contingency, Connection, and Possible Worlds: History and Poetry in Gottsched’s Versuch einer critischen Dichtkunst
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3. Cognitio historica between Kant and Meier
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4. “On the Wings of Imagination”: Wholeness and Spontaneity in Kant’s Philosophy of Universal History
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5. Not Benjamin’s Ranke: On the Aesthetics of Historicism
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6. Heidegger and the Plot of Metaphysics
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7. Arendt’s Epochal Phenomenology: History and the New
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8. Speaking for the Past: On Begriffsgeschichte and the Language of Other Epochs
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Conclusion: Wholeness and its Sabotage
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Bibliography
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Index
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