Aesthetic Experience and Literary Hermeneutics
Aesthetic Experience and Literary Hermeneutics
by Hans Robert Jauss
University of Minnesota Press, 1982
Paper: 978-0-8166-1006-8
Library of Congress Classification PN45.J313 1982
Dewey Decimal Classification 801.93
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Contents
- A Note on the Translation
- A.
- Sketch of a Theory and History of Aesthetic Experience
- 1.
- What does aesthetic experience mean?
- 2.
- Critique of Adorno's aesthetics of negativity
- 3.
- Aesthetic pleasure and the fundamental experiences of poiesis, aesthesis, and catharsis
- 4.
- The ambiguity and the refractoriness of the beautiful–a backward glance at a Platonic legacy
- 5.
- Poiesis: the productive side of aesthetic experience (construire et connaître)
- 6.
- Aesthesis: the receptive side of aesthetic experience (voir plus de choses qu'on n'en sait)
- 7.
- Catharsis: the communicative efficacy of aesthetic experience (movere et conciliare)
- 8.
- Aesthetic experience among the problems of everyday life: problems of delimitation
- a)
- Delimiting the ridiculous and the comic
- b)
- Sociological and aesthetic role concept
- c)
- The religious origin and aesthetic emancipation of individuality
- B.
- Interaction Patterns of Identification with the Hero
- 1.
- On the demarcation of the primary levels of aesthetic identification
- 2.
- Historical explanation of the interaction patterns
- a)
- Associative identification
- b)
- Admiring identification
- c)
- Sympathetic identification
- d)
- Cathartic identification
- C.
- On Why the Comic Hero Amuses
- 1.
- The comic hero seen negatively and positively (laughing about and laughing with)
- 2.
- The deflation of the classical ideal of the hero in the Vergil travesty of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- 3.
- The Rabelaisian hero as a figure of grotesque life
- 4.
- The comic of a one-sided portrayal of human nature (humor)
- 5.
- The comic of innocence–the innocence of the comic (Dickens's comic hero)
- D.
- On the Question of the “Structural Unity” of Older and Modern Lyric Poetry (Théophile de Viau: Ode III; Baudelaire: Le Cygne)
- 1.
- On the debate over Hugo Friedrich's theory of modern lyric poetry
- 2.
- The modernity of the classical in Gide's selection from the Maison de Silvie
- 3.
- Théophile's ode in the horizon of experience of Baroque lyric poetry
- 4.
- Baudelaire's renunciation of Platonism and the poetics of remembrance
- 5.
- Lyric poetry as “dream of a world in which things would be different” (postscript 1977)
- E.
- La douceur du foyer: Lyric Poetry of the Year 1857 as a Model for the Communication of Social Norms
- 1.
- From the image-fields of the poem to the communicative function of the lyric
- 2.
- Synchronic analysis of a lyrically represented subuniverse: La douceur du foyer
- 3.
- The social function of the lyric experience and its communications system in the life world of 1857