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.

大约在1900年，一种新的自助文献形式建立了自己。许多书籍出版物和培训表现出对所有人开放的成功。自助成功书本应该以各种方式授予读者的自我塑造力量：他们可以效仿伟人的榜样，他们可以克服神经疾病，他们可以变得更有活力并激活意志力，他们可以通过新的思想来改革自己的态度，可以通过新的思想来锻炼批准的实践来使自己变得合理。该研究项目的目的是分析1900年至1933年期间自助成功书出版物的兴起。这种文献尚未在文学研究中进行系统地研究。第一步，必须收集有关调查期的相关出版物。该项目不是从社会学，历史或科学历史角度来解决问题，而是将重点放在自助成功和话语分析方法的自助式成功书中的叙事和制度维度上自助成功书籍在这样的程度上必须被视为一种本身的叙事流派：成功始终是一个成功的故事。作为一个类别的机构维度涵盖了作者用来授权和确保其立场的元素（强调个人和实践的叙述（强调个人和实践经验），了解这些元素，并培养这些元素，并培养这些元素，并培养与阅读者的培训（F.I.i.i.i。为了进行锻炼，建议，前景等。）对叙事和制度维度的分析旨在重建务实的悖论和重言，这是自助成功书籍类型的组成部分（成功都不是每个人的成功，也无法预测）。该项目希望从文学研究的角度做出重大贡献，以对现代自助文化的家谱。在1900年至1930年之间，流派的大多数内部结构和代表性形式都在自助文学中占主导地位。