Constructing Imagination. Literature and Architecture in Modernity

最近，文化研究开始更多地关注建筑，艺术之母，根据古代，它的社会功能。从文化、经济、社会和政治的角度分析，建筑作为一种综合的社会力量正在获得新的意义。Emmy Noether研究小组的主要目标是“Bauformen der Imagination”。“现代性中的文学与建筑”就是要将这种扩展的建筑观运用到文学研究中。我们的研究目标是阐明建筑原则和文学实践之间的相互联系，因为这两种艺术之间的历史和系统关系尚未得到实质性的研究。当人们考虑到建筑在文学文本中频繁出现，不仅作为主题和背景，而且作为建设性元素时，这就更加令人惊讶了。通过典型的案例研究，我们试图阐明自18世纪以来文学参考建筑的历史。我们主要试图建立一套方法论方法，以更精确地描述建筑与文学之间的各种层次的相互作用，解决以下问题：建筑在小说中是如何被对待和表现的，这些表现具有什么样的形式、美学、叙事和认知意义？具体的建筑元素（如楼梯、窗户、阳台、门和走廊）实现了什么具体功能？在文学文本中，对空间结构原则的引用如何影响主体的形成？在叙事文本中，我们可以识别出建筑设计和诗歌设计之间的哪些类型的相互关系？

Recently, cultural studies has begun to pay more attention to architecture, the mother of the arts, according to antiquity, and its social functions. Analyzed with regard to its cultural, economic, social, and political implications, architecture is acquiring a new significance as a comprehensive social force.The main goal of the Emmy Noether Research Group "Bauformen der Imagination. Literature and Architecture in Modernity" is to apply this expanding view of architecture to literary studies. Our research object is to elucidate the interconnections between architectural principles and literary practices, for neither the historical nor the systematic relationship between the two arts has yet been substantially investigated. This is all the more astonishing when one considers the frequent appearance of architecture in literary texts, not only as motif and setting, but also as constructive element.Using exemplary case studies, we seek to illuminate the history of literary references to architecture since the eighteenth century. We mainly attempt to establish a set of methodological approaches enabling a more precise depiction of the various levels of interactions between architecture and literature, addressing the following questions: How is architecture treated and represented in fiction, and what formal, aesthetic, narrative, and epistemic significance do these representations have? What concrete functions do specific architectonic elements (such as staircase, window, balcony, door, and corridor) fulfill? How do references to principles of spatial construction influence the formation of the subject in literary texts? What types of interrelation between architectural and poetological designs can we identify in narrative texts?