Rhetorik der Empfindsamkeit: Unterhaltungskunst im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert

Antje Arnold

Published by De Gruyter 2012

Rhetorik der Empfindsamkeit

Unterhaltungskunst im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert

The Rhetoric of Sensibility

Antje Arnold

Volume 73 (307) in the series Quellen und Forschungen zur Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110276053

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As a ‘rhetoric of the mean’ (mesotes ideal), sensibility provides a positive catalog of emotionalization. This is because ethos as an emotional level is viewed as being able, through gentle emotions, to please, placate and achieve sympathy and virtue (Quintilian). Sensibility in literature creates a bridge between an ‘art of the soul’ that developed into a major subjective and personal factor in the 18th century and a sense of sociability that aimed to integrate the individual into the community. The goal of this study is to provide, through a structural linking of the ethos of virtue and the ‘rhetoric of the mean’, a reading of literature of sensibility based on rhetoric and cultural history that can explain both its public success ‘with the people’ and the reasons for why it failed to meet its own claims.

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Antje Arnold, Universität zu Köln.

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	i
Vorwort Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Inhalt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
I. Zwischen ethos und pathos: Zur Repräsentation empfindsamer Emotionen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
II. ‚Rhetorik der Mitte‘ prodesse et delectare in Zeitschriften und Brief Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
III. Erfolgskonzepte der Mitte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
IV. Weibliche Autorschaft und empfindsame Rhetorik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
V. Rhetorik der Empfindsamkeit auf die Probe gestellt (Haken: Blicke aus meines Onkels Dachfenster in’s Menschenherz) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
VI. Zur Mode geworden: Parodien auf die Empfindsamkeit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
VII. ‚Rhetorik für die Seele‘ wie ‚Kochkunst für den Leib‘: Fazit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
Literaturverzeichnis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Personenindex Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305

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Language: German
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics (Literary Studies, Art History), Libraries, Institutes
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 304
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 4
Keywords: Sentimentalism; Rhetoric; Ethics in Literature

eBook

Published: April 2, 2012
ISBN: 9783110276053

Hardcover

Published: March 15, 2012
ISBN: 9783110275742