{"title":"THE LATENT RADICALISM OF ARISTOTLE AND J. M. R. LENZ","authors":"Ellwood Wiggins","doi":"10.1111/glal.12365","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div>\n \n <p>J. M. R. Lenz's <i>Anmerkungen übers Theater</i> (1774) present the aesthetic manifesto of the Sturm und Drang. In order to express its programmatic agenda for the modern drama, the text repeatedly attacks Aristotle's <i>Poetics</i>. This article reads Lenz's treatment of the <i>Poetics</i> not merely as a handy rhetorical foil for showcasing his own innovative dramatic theories, but rather as an integral part of the performance of the text. It turns out that there are similarities in both form and content between the two disparate treatises. By tracing the series of opposing terms that the <i>Anmerkungen</i> take up in succession (imitation and viewpoint; man and fate; tragedy and comedy), the analysis sets up a final reevaluation of the aesthetics of effect implicit in Lenz's treatise. Though he never mentions catharsis, this ambiguous Aristotelian <i>terminus technicus</i> can be a key to understanding the paradoxes of Lenz's text and revealing its potential radicality.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54012,"journal":{"name":"GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS","volume":"76 1","pages":"150-172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2022-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/glal.12365","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERATURE, GERMAN, DUTCH, SCANDINAVIAN","Score":null,"Total":0}
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J. M. R. Lenz's Anmerkungen übers Theater (1774) present the aesthetic manifesto of the Sturm und Drang. In order to express its programmatic agenda for the modern drama, the text repeatedly attacks Aristotle's Poetics. This article reads Lenz's treatment of the Poetics not merely as a handy rhetorical foil for showcasing his own innovative dramatic theories, but rather as an integral part of the performance of the text. It turns out that there are similarities in both form and content between the two disparate treatises. By tracing the series of opposing terms that the Anmerkungen take up in succession (imitation and viewpoint; man and fate; tragedy and comedy), the analysis sets up a final reevaluation of the aesthetics of effect implicit in Lenz's treatise. Though he never mentions catharsis, this ambiguous Aristotelian terminus technicus can be a key to understanding the paradoxes of Lenz's text and revealing its potential radicality.
J. M. R. Lenz的《Anmerkungen bers剧场》(1774)是《狂飙与狂飙》的美学宣言。为了表达其对现代戏剧的纲论性议程，文本反复抨击亚里士多德的《诗学》。本文不仅将伦茨对《诗学》的处理作为展示他自己创新戏剧理论的一个方便的修辞陪衬，而且将其作为文本表演的一个组成部分。事实证明，这两篇不同的论文在形式和内容上都有相似之处。通过追溯Anmerkungen连续使用的一系列对立术语(模仿和观点;人与命运;悲剧和喜剧)，对伦茨论著中隐含的效果美学进行了最后的重新评价。虽然他从未提及“宣泄”，但这种亚里士多德式的模棱两可的“技术终点”可能是理解伦茨文本悖论和揭示其潜在激进性的关键。
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- German Life and Letters was founded in 1936 by the distinguished British Germanist L.A. Willoughby and the publisher Basil Blackwell. In its first number the journal described its aim as "engagement with German culture in its widest aspects: its history, literature, religion, music, art; with German life in general". German LIfe and Letters has continued over the decades to observe its founding principles of providing an international and interdisciplinary forum for scholarly analysis of German culture past and present. The journal appears four times a year, and a typical number contains around eight articles of between six and eight thousand words each.
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