Arts of Connection : : Poetry, History, Epochality / / Karen S. Feldman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Feldman, Karen S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Paradigms : Literature and the Human Sciences , 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (IX, 201 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; Introduction: On Plot and the One-by-One --; Part I: Poetry: Necessity and Plot in Aristotle and Eighteenth-Century German Criticism --; 1. Unexpected Yet Connected: On Aristotle’s Poetics and its Heterodox Receptions --; 2. Contingency, Connection, and Possible Worlds: History and Poetry in Gottsched’s Versuch einer critischen Dichtkunst --; Part II: History: Aesthetic Connection in Historical Knowledge and Historical Composition --; 3. Cognitio historica between Kant and Meier --; 4. “On the Wings of Imagination”: Wholeness and Spontaneity in Kant’s Philosophy of Universal History --; 5. Not Benjamin’s Ranke: On the Aesthetics of Historicism --; Part III: Epochality: On Phenomenology’s Appeals to a Disconnected Past --; 6. Heidegger and the Plot of Metaphysics --; 7. Arendt’s Epochal Phenomenology: History and the New --; 8. Speaking for the Past: On Begriffsgeschichte and the Language of Other Epochs --; Conclusion: Wholeness and its Sabotage --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110631494; 9783110762464; 9783110719567; 9783110616859; 9783110610765; 9783110664232; 9783110610369; 9783110606348
• ISSN: 2195-2205
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110631494
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Karen S. Feldman.

At the intersection of literary theory, philosophy of history and phenomenology, Arts of Connection: Poetry, History, Epochality explores the representation of connections between events in literary, historical and philosophical narratives. Events in a story can be seen as ordered according to proximate causation, which leads diachronically from one event to the next; and they can also be understood in view of the structure of the narrative as a whole – for instance in terms of the unity of plot. Feldman argues that there exists an essential narrative tension between these two kinds of connection, i.e. between the overarching arrangement or plot that holds together events from "outside," as it were, in order to produce an intelligible whole; and the portrayal of one-by-one, "interstitial" connections between events within the narrative. Arts of Connection demonstrates, by means of exemplary moments in Aristotle and classical German poetics, eighteenth-century philosophy of history, and twentieth-century phenomenology, that the task of connection is a fraught one, insofar as the formal unity of narrative competes or interferes with the representation of one-by-one connections between events, and vice versa.