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Poetik des Realen

  • Astrid Dröse
Published/Copyright: December 6, 2018
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Abstract

This article explores the ›poetics of the real‹ in three contemporary texts that describe the siege of Magdeburg by Tilly’s troops in 1631: The most important chronicle of the century, Merian’s Theatrum Europaeum, Bogislaw von Chemnitz’ Koniglich Schwedischer in Teutschland gefuhrter Krieg, and finally Georg Greflinger’s carmen heroicum Der Deutschen Dreysig-Jahriger Krieg - the first poetic representation of the entire war from the perspective of a contemporary. Real experience, historical facts, and literary convention are intertwined, thus creating a space of conceptual tension. The article aims to demonstrate that Greflinger’s strategies of rhetorical emplotments are part of his historiographic poetics that make the catastrophes understandable to the recipient. In this way, the literary framing supports the representation of truth. A comparison with the two historiographical texts illustrates this claim.

Online erschienen: 2018-12-06
Erschienen im Druck: 2018-12-01

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