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Abstract
In his farces, Johann Nepomuk Nestroy seizes on prevailing stereotypes of genius, treating the concept with an irony that contributed to its critical revision in his day. Drawing on the theories of Michail Bachtin, the article examines how genius – as a term and as a series of (con)figurations – features in Nestroy's works, differentiating between its chronotopic, polyphonic and dialogic dramaturgical functions. Within the sociolinguistic groundedness of Nestroy's settings, the tension between words and action, puns and plot, opens up perspectives on the play between various kinds of capital which drove ʻVormärzʼ society.
Die Possen Johann Nepomuk Nestroys lassen sich die zeittypische Konjunktur des Geniewesens nicht entgehen und haben Teil an seiner kritischen Ironisierung. Ausgehend von Konzepten Michail Bachtins unterscheidet und untersucht der Beitrag eine chronotopische, eine polyphone und eine dialogisch-dramaturgische Funktion, die Begriff und Figuration des ʻGeniesʼ bei Nestroy zukommen. In der Spannung von Wortbedeutung und dramatischem Geschehen öffnet sich in der sprachlich-sozialen Konkretion der Faktur der Stücke ein Blick auf das Spiel der Kapitalien, das die Vormärzgesellschaft umtreibt.
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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.