The Dedication in German Literature since 1800. History, Aesthetics and Theory of a Literary Practice.

该研究项目对19世纪和20世纪德国文学中的印刷献词及其功能和发展进行了全面的分析。目前，关于奉献的研究在国际上和跨学科上都很活跃：奉献作为副文，在作者、作品的主要文本和接受者之间形成了一个接口。因此，他们有望在文学史、当代史和接受理论方面有新的见解。提交的项目系统地将到目前为止最多单独审查的这些方面联系在一起，从而为国际上关于奉献的研究提供了必要的新动力。它结合了丰富的历史方法，这是第一次基于广泛的数据收集与语言学案例研究，分析了奉献作为一种文学技巧和作者诗学中的一个重要元素的实践。一方面，这部拟出版的专著以其时代性和社会历史特征，重建了奉献作为一种文学实践的发展，这一实践在今天的德国文学中仍然存在。这一部分以1800至1899年的统计调查为基础，辅之以20世纪60年代的样本。另一方面，它也展示了其审美功能在文学文本中的聚合关联性。这部专著分析了1800-1999年间奉献在经济(赞助形式)、接受理论和形成整体(WerkPoltik)策略方面的不同功能，填补了德国文学研究中一个引人注目的学术空白。1800年后德国文学中的奉献实践是由历史、美学和类型学共同决定的。因此，它允许后续研究项目与其结果相联系，并将其作为在新背景下进一步分析奉献精神的基础(例如，侧重于不同历史时期或语言领域的研究，或在音乐研究、艺术史和科学史方面的研究)。因此，提交的项目可以作为副文本研究的理论模型，因为它创新地结合了数字人文学的程序和经典的解释学语言学方法。为该项目的史学部分收集的数据集将通过Kulturforschung文献中心的开放访问文件服务器向公众提供，供后续研究使用。收集的主数据和元数据的全面性也使它们对于专注于专门研究之外的方面的研究很有用。

The research project develops a comprehensive analysis of printed dedications, their functions and developments, in German literature of the 19th and 20th century. Currently, research on dedications has flourished internationally as well as interdisciplinarily: As paratexts, dedications form an interface between an author, the main text of his work, and its recipient. They therefore hold the promise of new insights in regards to history of literature, contemporary history and reception theory. The project submitted systematically links these aspects that so far have at the most been reviewed separately, and hence provides the international research on dedications with essential new impulses. It combines an ample historical approach that for the first time is based on a broad data collection with philological case studies that analyze the praxis of dedicating as a literary technique and as an significant element in an author’s poetics. On the one hand, the proposed monograph reconstructs the development of dedicating as a literary praxis that is still relevant today in German literature with its epochal and socio-historical characteristics since 1800. This part is based on a statistical survey for the years 1800 to 1899, supplemented with a sample from the 20th century focusing on the 1960s. On the other hand, it demonstrates the paradigmatic relevance of its aesthetic function in literary texts. Analyzing the diverse functions of dedications in regards to economy (forms of patronage), reception theory and strategies in forming an oeuvre (Werkpolitik) from 1800 to 1999, the monograph fills a striking academic void in German literary studies. The praxis of dedicating in German literature after 1800 is determined historically and aesthetically as well as typologically. It therefore allows subsequent research projects to link to its results and use them as base for further analysis of dedications in new contexts (e.g. research focused on different historical periods or language areas, or in musical studies, history of art and history of science). Consequently, the project submitted can serve as a theoretical model for paratext studies due to its innovative combination of procedures from Digital Humanities with classical hermeneutic philological methods. The data sets collected for the historiographical part of the project will be made publically available for subsequent research via the open access document server at the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung. The comprehensiveness of the master data and the meta data collected also makes them useful for research focusing on aspects beyond dedications.