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题词及其功能和发展进行了全面分析。目前，对献词的研究在国际上和跨学科领域都很活跃：作为文本，献词构成了作者、作品主体和接受者之间的界面。因此，它们有望在文学史、当代史和接受理论方面提供新的见解。提交的项目系统地将迄今为止最多单独审查过的这些方面联系起来，从而为关于奉献精神的国际研究提供了重要的新推动力。它结合了丰富的历史方法，首次基于广泛的数据收集和语言学案例研究，分析了奉献作为一种文学技巧和作者诗学中的重要元素的实践。一方面，该专著重建了奉献作为一种文学实践的发展，这种文学实践在1800年以来的德国文学中仍然具有时代性和社会历史特征。本部分以1800年至1899年的统计调查为基础，辅以20世纪以20世纪60年代为重点的样本。另一方面，它展示了其在文学文本中的审美功能的范式关联。从1800年到1999年，该专著分析了奉献在经济（赞助形式）、接受理论和策略方面的不同功能，形成了一部作品（Werkpolitik），填补了德国文学研究中一个引人注目的学术空白。1800年后德国文学的奉献实践是由历史、美学和类型学决定的。因此，它允许后续的研究项目与它的结果联系起来，并将它们作为在新的背景下进一步分析奉献的基础（例如，研究侧重于不同的历史时期或语言领域，或音乐研究、艺术史和科学史）。因此，提交的项目可以作为一个理论模型，因为它创新地结合了数字人文学科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<s:1>文学与文化中心的开放获取文件服务器公开，供后续研究使用。所收集的主数据和元数据的全面性也使它们对专注于奉献之外的方面的研究非常有用。

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.