Time-Writing: The 'Chronopoetics' of Journal Literature and the Genesis of Literariness

时间书写：期刊文学的“时间诗学”和文学性的起源

• 批准号: 314424402
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Nicola Kaminski
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Germanistisches Institut
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Units
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2015-12-31 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/314424402?language=en
• 关键词: Time; Writing; Chronopoetics; Journal; Literature

This sub-project considers the interface between 'time' and 'text,' which is constitutive of periodicals and newspapers as distinctive media formats. As is indicated by the German terms Zeitschrift (periodical) and Zeitung (newspaper), both are intrinsically time-bound and time-related media. Taking its cue from this temporal factor, which is fundamental to the production, reception, and distribution of journals, the sub-project focusses on those journals in which time plays a crucial role within the production process of an issue or even functions as a thematic 'guiding thread.' It will examine journals that exhibit a proximity to the day-to-day structure of newspapers and thus unfold the reflexive potential inherent in the concept of the 'time-writing' (Zeit-Schrift)-whether by exposing it as a point of rupture or affirming it as a particularly sensitive point of intersection. The guiding hypothesis of the research is that the possible friction between 'time' and 'writing' inherent to the journal format surfaces when the experience of discontinuity calls into question established practices of serial reporting. On this basis, the sub-project will consider German-language journals published during the Napoleonic Wars of 1813-1815 as a form of laboratory in which the interaction between time and writing can be observed during an interim period of de facto press freedom. Particular attention will be given to journals which: a) were founded within this period and which expressly refer to it, thus exhibiting certain 'irregularities'; b) were designed, as far as their format was concerned, as 'news-papers' (Zeitblätter), in which politico-historical and military reporting was juxtaposed with cultural and literary content; and c) reflected on their own status as journals. The task of giving a representative account of the 'news-paper' format at the time of the Wars of Liberation is linked to the more fundamental project of drawing on extreme cases in order to elaborate paradigmatic insights into the journal-book difference with respect to the relationship to time. One of the key aims in favour of the research group's overall project is thus to analyse the 'chronopoetics' of journal publications. Alongside this consideration of the journal as 'written in time,' the sub-project will also challenge the opposite perspective, which conceives the book as 'timeless,' or as a work that is lifted out of time.This perspective would seem natural insofar as, symptomatically, it was precisely these Napoleonic era 'news-papers' in their close relation to current events that positioned themselves in relation to the book form, regarding it as a distant goal, albeit one that was not yet 'appropriate for the time.'A further key question addressed by the sub-project is therefore genesis of literariness, which on our working hypothesis is to be understood as an effect of the cultural reception of works in the course of their transition from the journal format to the book.

这个子项目考虑了“时间”和“文本”之间的界面，这是期刊和报纸作为独特媒体形式的组成部分。正如德语术语Zeitschrift（期刊）和Zeitung（报纸）所表明的那样，两者本质上都是有时间限制和与时间相关的媒体。时间因素是期刊的生产、接收和发行的基础，该子项目的灵感来自于这些期刊，其中时间在期刊的生产过程中起着至关重要的作用，甚至可以作为主题的“指导线索”。它将研究那些表现出与报纸日常结构接近的期刊，从而揭示“时间写作”（Zeit-Schrift）概念固有的反思潜力——无论是通过将其作为一个断裂点，还是肯定它是一个特别敏感的交叉点。该研究的指导假设是，当不连续性的经历对连续报道的既定实践提出质疑时，期刊格式固有的“时间”和“写作”之间可能存在的摩擦就会浮出水面。在此基础上，子项目将考虑1813-1815年拿破仑战争期间出版的德语期刊作为一种实验室形式，在这种实验室中，可以在事实上的新闻自由的过渡时期观察时间与写作之间的相互作用。将特别注意以下期刊：a)在这一时期成立并明确提到这一时期，因此表现出某些“违规行为”；b)就其格式而言，设计为“报纸”（Zeitblätter），其中政治、历史和军事报道与文化和文学内容并列；c)反思自己作为期刊的地位。对解放战争时期的“报纸”形式进行有代表性的描述，这一任务与一个更基本的项目有关，即利用极端案例，以详细阐述期刊与书籍在时间关系方面的差异。因此，支持该研究小组整体项目的关键目标之一是分析期刊出版物的“时间学”。除了认为这本日记是“写在时间里的”之外，这个子项目还将挑战相反的观点，即认为这本书是“永恒的”，或者是一部超越时间的作品。这种观点似乎很自然，因为从症状上看，正是这些拿破仑时代的“报纸”与当前事件密切相关，它们将自己定位于与书籍形式相关的地方，将其视为一个遥远的目标，尽管它还不“适合当时”。“因此，子项目解决的另一个关键问题是文学性的起源，根据我们的工作假设，这应该被理解为作品从期刊格式转变为书籍的过程中文化接受的影响。”