Poetics of Success. Institutional and Narrative Dimensions of Self-Help Success Books (1900-1933)

成功的诗学。

基本信息

批准号：
287283280
负责人：
Professor Dr. Michael Niehaus
金额：
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依托单位：
Institut für Neuere deutsche Literatur- und Medienwissenschaft
依托单位国家：
德国
项目类别：
Research Grants
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
德国
起止时间：
2015-12-31 至 2019-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/287283280?language=en
关键词：
Poetics Success.Institutional Narrative Dimensions

项目摘要

Around 1900 a new form of self-help literature establishes itself. Numerous book publications and broschures present success as being open to everybody. Self-help success books are supposed to award their readers in all sorts of manner the power of self-shaping: They can follow the example of great men, they can overcome their neurasthenia, they can become more energetic and activate their will power, they can reform their attitude with new thought, they can exercise approved practices to rationalise oneself. It is the intention of this research project to analyse the rise of self-help success book publications in the period between 1900 and 1933. This type of literature has not yet been studied systematically in literary studies. In a first step the relevant publications for the investigation period have to be collected. Rather than adressing issues from the angle of sociology, history or history of science, the project will focus on the narrative and institutional dimensions of representation in self help success books combining a narratological and discourse analytical approach.The narrative dimension of these self-help books comprises a wide range of elements: cases, examples, anecdotes, biographical outlines, autofictional accounts, typecast stories etc. These parts play a constitutive role in self-help success books to such an extent, that they must be considered a narrative genre in its own right: Success is always a success story.The institutional dimension as a category covers those elements that the author uses to authorize and secure his position (f.i. narratives underlining personal and practical experience, know how, scientific record) and furthermore those elements that relate to the reader (f.i. explicit performativity in adressing the reader, instructions for exercise, suggestions, prospects etc.)The analysis of the narrative and institutional dimension aims to reconstruct the agency of the pragmatic paradoxes and tautologies that are an integral part of the genre of self-help success books (success is neither in reach for everyone nor can it be predicted). The project wants to make a major contribution from the perspective of literary studies to a genealogy of modern self-help culture. In the years between 1900 and 1930 most of the inner structures and representational forms of the genre emerge, that are predominant in self-help literatur until today.

1900 年左右，一种新形式的自助文学诞生了。许多书籍出版物和小册子都将成功描述为向所有人开放。自助成功类书籍应该以各种方式赋予读者自我塑造的力量：可以效仿伟人，可以克服神经衰弱，可以变得更有活力，激活意志力，可以他们可以用新的思想来改变他们的态度，他们可以运用认可的做法来使自己合理化。本研究项目的目的是分析 1900 年至 1933 年间自助成功书籍出版物的兴起。文学研究中尚未对此类文学进行系统研究。第一步必须收集调查期间的相关出版物。该项目不是从社会学、历史或科学史的角度来解决问题，而是将重点放在自助成功书籍中的叙事和制度维度上，结合叙事学和话语分析方法。这些自助书籍的叙事维度包含广泛的元素：案例、例子、轶事、传记大纲、自传、典型故事等。这些部分在自助成功书籍中发挥着重要作用，以至于它们必须被视为叙述性的类型本身：成功总是一个成功的故事。制度维度作为一个类别涵盖了作者用来授权和确保其立场的那些元素（例如强调个人和实践经验、专业知识、科学记录的叙述），此外还包括那些与读者相关的元素（例如，针对读者的明确表演性、练习指导、建议、前景等）。对叙事和制度维度的分析旨在重建实用悖论和同义反复的机构，这些悖论和同义反复是不可或缺的。自助成功书籍类型的一部分（成功既不是每个人都能达到的，也不是可以预测的）。该项目希望从文学研究的角度为现代自助文化的谱系做出重大贡献。在 1900 年至 1930 年间，该流派的大部分内部结构和表征形式出现，直至今日，它们在自助文学中占据主导地位。