"Sinn und Form": The Anatomy of a Literary Journal

Stephen Parker; Matthew Philpotts

Published by De Gruyter 2009

"Sinn und Form"

The Anatomy of a Literary Journal

Stephen Parker and Matthew Philpotts

Volume 6 in the series Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110217865

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About this book

This study of the legendary Berlin literary and cultural journal Sinn und Form (1949- ) has a twofold significance. Based on extensive archival research and a detailed reading of the journal’s published face, it is a comprehensive history of „Sinn und Form“, whose founding editor was Peter Huchel and whose authors include Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Bloch, Pablo Neruda, Romain Rolland, Peter Weiss, Christa Wolf, Heiner Müller and Durs Grünbein. As such, it offers a fascinating perspective on the cultural history of the GDR and post-unification Germany. The study is also a first typological analysis of the anatomy of such a journal, organised in seven analytical categories: founding conception; cultural-political context; institutional infrastructure; role of editors; network of contributors; textual and compositional dimension; readership and reception. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of culture, the authors set out to explain how the journal acquired and maintained its influence over the last 60 years. In turn, this conceptualisation of the journal as an agent in the cultural field opens the way for systematic research into literary and cultural journals from a comparative perspective, synthesising sociological and literary approaches.

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Stephen Parker and Matthew Philpotts, University of Manchester, UK.

Reviews

"Mit dieser detailreichen, analytischen und anregend geschriebenen Studie über eine wichtige Literaturzeitung der DDR [...] wollen die beiden in der Thematik bereits ausgewiesenen Verf. v. a. deren Status und Einfluss erklären, insofern über eine bloße Dokumentation bzw. Verlaufsdarstellung hinausgehen und dergestalt den Stand der einschlägigen Forschung substantiell erweitern."
Michael Nagel in: Germanistik Redaktion 2011, Band 52, Heft 1-2

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	i
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Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Establishing the Legend: The Accumulation of Symbolic Capital (1948-1955) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Chapter 2. Dynamic Mediation: The Literary Field and the Field oE Power Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Chapter 3. Institutional Investment: Capital Exchanges in The Academy oE Arts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
Chapter 4. Double Agent? The Editor-in-Chief as Symbolic Banker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Chapter 5. Contributors: The Social Capital oE the Sinn und Form Salon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Chapter 6. The Compositional Premium: The Journal as Fractal Text Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Chapter 7. The Circle of Belief: Readership and Reception Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Institutes, Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 396
Keywords: Sinn und Form; Literary Journal

eBook

Published: October 16, 2009
ISBN: 9783110217865

Hardcover

Published: July 15, 2009
ISBN: 9783110217858