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

Introduction

Godzich, Wlad

A Note on the Translation

Preface

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

e)
Ironic 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

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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