Constructing Imagination. Literature and Architecture in Modernity

近年来，文化研究开始更多地关注建筑这一古老的艺术之母，以及它的社会功能。从文化、经济、社会和政治意义上分析，建筑作为一种综合的社会力量正在获得新的意义。艾美诺特研究小组的主要目标是将这种扩展的建筑观应用于文学研究。我们的研究目的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。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，这一点更加令人惊讶。我们通过典型的案例研究，试图阐明自18世纪以来文学对建筑的引用的历史。我们主要试图建立一套方法论方法，能够更准确地描述建筑和文学之间不同层次的互动，解决以下问题：建筑是如何在小说中被对待和表现的，以及这些表现具有什么形式、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)有哪些具体功能？空间建构原则的引用如何影响文学文本中主体的形成？在叙事文本中，我们可以辨认出建筑设计和诗学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?