{"title":"A Humanist in Wartime France: Wang Jingwei during the First World War","authors":"Zhiyi Yang","doi":"10.30965/25890530-04901006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30965/25890530-04901006","url":null,"abstract":"August 1912, Wang Zhaoming 汪兆銘 (1883–1944; better known as Wang Jingwei) left China for France. A leader of the nationalist movement, he had been imprisoned by the Manchu Regime for a failed attempt on the Prince Regent’s life. Now that the Republic had been founded, he chose to reject all offers of government positions. Instead, he decided to continue his study in France, under the tutelage of his anarchist friends. This erstwhile assassin would emerge from WWI France as a humanist opposed to all forms of violence. Employing rarely studied archival materials, this paper analyzes his poems during those Lehrjahre and Wanderjahre. It argues that, far from being idyllic pastorals as many biographers assume, they show a man torn by conflicting ideologies, agonizing over unfulfilled commitments, and tormented by his inner demons. Through these poems, he also creates an identity that is a traditional scholar-bureaucrat, an anarchist philosophe, a modern knowledge professional, and a statesman all in one – an identity that was unique in China’s transition into a modern polity. Wang’s later protean ideological allegiances, including his infamous collaboration with Japan under the banner of Pan-Asianism during WWII, arguably illustrated his intellectual hybridity. This paper will in particular examine a poem that ostensibly “translated” Jean-Pierre de Florian’s fable “La Brebis et le Chien” into a pentasyllabic ballad, elaborating on pacifism and the strength of the weak. It was both a personal response to the wartime upheaval and a harbinger of his future fate.","PeriodicalId":44401,"journal":{"name":"POETICA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR SPRACH-UND LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT","volume":"79 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41299956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ends and Beginnings of World Literature","authors":"M. Kern","doi":"10.30965/25890530-04901001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.30965/25890530-04901001","url":null,"abstract":"The essay posits “world literature” and “global literature” as opposites: where the former thrives on intraand intercultural alterity, the latter conforms to global market demands that erase the distinctions between the local and the global. By way of examples from classical and contemporary Chinese poetry, “world literature” is conceptualized anew through Adorno’s idea of the nonidentical both at home and abroad. To maintain and express this dual alterity is the ultimate responsibility of the translator.","PeriodicalId":44401,"journal":{"name":"POETICA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR SPRACH-UND LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2019-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47450051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lars Korten, Friederike Wissmann, J. Stenger, W. Menninghaus
{"title":"Metrum, Rhythmus, Melodie: Der Maiabend von Johann Heinrich Voß und Fanny Hensel","authors":"Lars Korten, Friederike Wissmann, J. Stenger, W. Menninghaus","doi":"10.1163/25890530-043-01-90000005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25890530-043-01-90000005","url":null,"abstract":"Die Nachbildung der antiken Versmase im Deutschen wird haufig als Beitrag zur imitatio der Alten verstanden. Die versanalytische Grundlage und der theoretische Horizont dieser Nachbildung werden in einer solchen Perspektive oft unterschatzt. Vergleichende und theoretische Metrik sowie ein weitreichendes Interesse an Prosodie und nicht-semantischer Affekterregung begleiten die neuen Formversuche in deutscher Sprache beinahe von Beginn an.1 Lange nach Klopstocks masgeblichen Arbeiten als Dichter und Theoretiker von Metrum und Rhythmus arbeitet Johann Heinrich Vos erneut in dieser seltenen Doppelrolle. Mit seiner Zeitmessung der deutschen Sprache ( 1 802)2 geht er dabei deutlich uber Klopstocks metrische Theorie hinaus. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht eine Konfiguration, die sich aus Vos' theoretischem Hauptwerk, seiner alkaischen Ode Der Maiabend und ihrer Vertonung durch Fanny Hensel ergeben hat. Ziel der Studie ist es, durch Arbeit an metrischen und musikalischen Details sowie deren Ruckkopplung an die metrische Theorieund Notationsbildung Folgendes zu zeigen: 1. Die verbreitete Rede von musikalischen Qualitaten insbesondere der Gedichtsprache ist schon in der historischen Metrik alles andere als eine vage Analogie oder Metapher. Sie macht sich an Merkmalen fest, die einer formalen Notation zuganglich sind. 2. Metrische Theoriebildung dieser Art hat historisch auf die lyrische Praxis zuruckgewirkt und evtl. direkt musikalische Kompositionen beeinflust. 3. In Vos' Theorie ist es in Ubereinstimmung mit der antiken MelosVorstellung die Integration der Kategorien , Tonhohe4 und , Melodie', kraft welcher die in der Metrik dominierenden Kategorien von , Tondauer',","PeriodicalId":44401,"journal":{"name":"POETICA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR SPRACH-UND LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT","volume":"476 1","pages":"81-102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2011-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76064861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}