Miscellaneous Poetics: On the Co-Evolution of Periodical Press and the Modern Novel

本子项目旨在探讨19世纪叙事文学美学与同期期刊出版形式之间的关系。它将研究期刊文本的系列出版，它们在不同主题和文本系列中的出现，以及它们在各种认识论话语中的嵌入性，如何影响虚构文本的叙事结构。最初的假设是，报纸和期刊在19世纪大众图书市场上的日益增加形成了读者的某些期望，这导致期刊出版物的各个方面（例如系列结构，主题参考和话语间性）被纳入小说和故事的设计中。因此，我们并不认为叙事文学和小说文学对某些形式的期刊传播被动地、反射性地作出反应，而是认为期刊出版和小说的诗学相互影响，因此，我们可以说这是一种反馈效应或共同进化。我们对这种共同进化的重建将围绕“杂集”的概念进行，作为一种开放的、“混合的”和连续的文本形式，它将构成对期刊出版物结构元素分析的启发式起点，然后在项目的过程中进一步完善。在方法学方面，子项目将考虑发表在期刊上的叙述性文本的典型例子，并将研究这些文本之间的相互关系，以及它们的出版环境的各种-话语，媒体或一般-含义。与研究小组的其他子项目一样，这里将特别注意连载结构、期刊格式以及通过具体出版格式和设计来规划接受态度的方式。在这个子项目的第二阶段，将阐明各自期刊中分析的叙事文本的文本范围；这将允许探索以前未知的期刊文献的比较语料库，因为它将在我们的研究过程中与规范源文本一起出现。通过这种方式，子项目旨在通过参考文学出版物的媒体历史，为19世纪文学的传统分类提供另一种选择。通过这种方式，子项目既有助于期刊文学的美学，也有助于从媒体史的角度对规范化过程进行修订。在关注19世纪叙事文学的系列和话语间结构元素时，它也允许将其问题扩展到20世纪，直到今天的媒体美学。

The aim of this sub-project is to investigate the relations between the aesthetics of 19th century narrative literature and periodical publication formats during the same period. It will examine how the serial publication of journal texts, their appearance in different thematic and textual series, and their embeddedness within various epistemological discourses, affected the narrative structure of fictional texts. The initial hypothesis is that the increasing presence of newspapers and periodicals on the 19th century mass book market formed certain expectations in readers, which led to the incorporation of various aspects of periodical publications (e.g. serial structures, topical references, and interdiscursivity) into the design of novels and stories. It is not thereby assumed that narrative and novelistic literature reacted passively and reflexively to certain forms of periodical communication, but rather that both the periodical press and the poetics of the novel exerted a reciprocal influence on one another, so that one could speak here of a feedback effect or of a co-evolution. Our reconstruction of this co-evolution will be oriented around the concept of the "miscellany," which, as an open, 'mixed,' and serial textual form will constitute the heuristic starting point for the analysis of the structural elements of periodical publications, which will then be further refined over the course of the project. In methodological terms, the sub-project will consider typical examples of narrative texts published in periodicals, and will examine the reciprocal relations between these texts on the one hand and the various - discursive, medial, or generic - implications of their publication context. As in the research group's other sub-projects, particular attention will be given here to serial structures, the journal format, as well as to the manner in which receptive attitudes are being programmed by specific publication formats and designs. In the second stage of this sub-project, the textual vicinity of the analysed narrative texts within the respective journal issues will be illuminated; this will allow to explore a comparative corpus of previously unknown periodical literature as it will emerge alongside the canonical source texts in the course of our research. In this way, the sub-project aims to offer an alternative to the traditional categorisation of 19th century literature by referring to the media history of literary publications. In this way, the sub-project contributes both to the aesthetics of journal literature and to a revision of the canonisation process from the perspective of media history. In focussing on the serial and interdiscursive structural elements of 19th century narrative literature, it also allows for the extension of its problematic into the 20th century and up to today's media aesthetics.