Ornamental Constellations: on the Aesthetics of Literary Magazines in the Realm of ModernMass Media (1880 to 1930)

这个项目建立在第一个项目阶段所进行的研究基础上，研究的是世纪期刊格式的系列性和多样性与小说叙事形式之间的关系。在项目的第二阶段，该项目将考虑这种关系如何在世纪之交随着致力于各种文学现代性流派的纲领性期刊的出现和新的大众媒体如电影和广播的兴起而开始转变，以及当时的新期刊本身如何呈现出日益审美化和文学化的特征。直到19世纪80年代，期刊通常作为小说叙事文本的最初出版机构，这些文本在结构上或主题上回应了相关通用或特定格式的通用或话语异质性，并反映了“离心”和“向心”元素之间的相互作用。然而，在分析随后的时期时，我们希望考察期刊是如何发展自己的美学抱负的，无论是关于它们出版的文本还是它们自己的排版和布局。从历史上看，这始于那些将自己定位为自然主义和美学流派的纲领性机构的“小杂志”，并在表现主义和新客观主义的背景下以某些通用格式继续，更广泛地表现为文学和文化期刊。这些研究的重点不再是以连载的形式出版文学作品，而是整理“较短的形式”，允许个别问题以独特的主题或视觉美学进行实验。在分析这些发展时，项目研究人员将借鉴装饰的概念，这是当时建筑，文学和文化理论中激烈辩论的主题。它将考虑在期刊和这些期刊本身的装饰设计的装饰辩论之间的相互作用，参加到个别文本，星座，文本的蒙太奇以及图像/广告的语言结构，和排版和布局的元素。其目的是检查的方式，在讨论中的期刊谈判之间的紧张关系审美化的概念的装饰和大众或流行文化的视觉图式。这将有助于我们更深入地了解文学期刊在世纪之交如何在新的视听大众媒体中定位。

This project builds on research undertaken during the first project phase on the relationship between the serial and miscellaneous character of periodical formats and the narrative forms of the novel in the nineteenth century. In the second project phase, the project will consider how this relationship begins to shift around the turn of the twentieth century with the emergence of programmatic periodicals devoted to various schools of literary modernity and the rise of new mass media such as cinema and radio, as well as how the new periodicals of the time themselves take on an increasingly aestheticised and literary character. Up until the 1880s, periodicals often served as organs for the initial publication of fictional narrative texts that structurally or thematically responded to the generic or discursive heterogeneity of the relevant generic or specific formats and reflected on the interplay between "centrifugal" and "centripetal" elements. In analysing the subsequent period, however, we wish to examine how periodicals developed aesthetic aspirations of their own, both with respect to the texts they published and their own typographic arrangement and layout. Historically, this began with those "small magazines" that positioned themselves as programmatic organs for the naturalistic and aesthetic schools, and continued in the context of Expressionism and New Objectivity in certain generic formats presented more broadly as literary and cultural periodicals. These no longer focussed on publishing literary texts in serial form, but on collating "shorter forms" that allowed individual issues to experiment with a distinct thematic or visual aesthetic.In analysing these developments, the project researchers will draw on the concept of the ornament, which was the subject of heated debate in the architectural, literary, and cultural theory of the time. It will consider the interplay between debates on the ornament in periodicals and the ornamental design of these periodicals themselves, by attending to the linguistic structure of individual texts, constellations, and montages of texts as well as images/advertisements, and elements of typography and layout. The aim is to examine the manner in which the periodicals in question negotiate the tension between an aestheticised conception of the ornamental and mass or popular-cultural visual schematisations. This, in turn, will facilitate greater insight into how literary periodicals positioned themselves among the new audio-visual mass media at the turn of the twentieth century.