Der Konferenzband präsentiert elf Beiträge amerikanischer und deutscher Literaturwissenschaftler in englischer Sprache, in denen aus theoretischer wie historischer Sicht die literarische Übersetzung als vielschichtige Praxis interkulturellen Transfers erforscht wird. Der erste Teil ist methodologischen und praktischen Fragen der jüngsten Übersetzungsforschung gewidmet. Der zweite Teil thematisiert den Übertragungsprozeß deutscher Literatur und Philosophie in den nordamerikanischen Kontext anhand von Fallstudien. Der interdisziplinär ausgerichtete Band wendet sich an Literatur-, Theater- und Übersetzungswissenschaftler sowie an Kulturhistoriker. In this conference volume, eleven American and German scholars explore literary translation as a complex practice of intercultural transfer from various theoretical and historical viewpoints. This interdisciplinary volume is addressed to scholars of comparative literature, drama, cultural studies, and translation theory.
This book features a series of essays that delve into the transformative insights of Fichte, Herder, Humboldt, and the Romantics regarding the essential role of language and imagination in shaping human experience and art. It explores how language, self-consciousness, and understanding emerge through speech, alongside discussions on literary art, the philosophy of history, German humanities, philology, and semiotics. The author also examines the significance of phenomenology and interpretation within literary theory. By highlighting the ideas of A. W. Vico, F. Schlegel, Novalis, Germaine de Staël, and Schleiermacher, the author elucidates themes of romantic poetics, translation, discourse, and cultural transfer. The work presents a hermeneutic analysis focused on the interpretations of language by Fichte, Herder, Humboldt, and the Romantics, investigating how language and imagination shape experience and art. It addresses semiotics, philology, and the philosophy of history, while emphasizing the role of phenomenology and interpretation in literary criticism. The author particularly underscores the views of Vico, Schlegel, Novalis, Staël, and Schleiermacher, shedding light on translation, discourse, and cultural transfer theories, as well as the poetics of the Romantics.
German-American Cultural Transfer from the 18th to the End of the 19th Century
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This volume attempts for the first time a comprehensive view of the momentous process of German-American cultural transfer during the 18th and 19th centuries, which played an important part in the formation of an American national and cultural identity, a process to which the New England Transcendentalists contributed some of the decisive ingredients, but which has largely escaped the attention of German and American scholarship. In each chapter a specific problem is treated systematically from a clearly defined perspective, deficiencies of existing translation theories are exposed, so that in the concluding chapters 13 and 14 (with an unpublished memorandum by Alexander von Humboldt) a cohesive view of the entire process emerges. A comprehensive bibliography will facilitate further scholarly pursuits.
Frontmatter -- Preface / Mueller-Vollmer, Kurt -- Table of Contents -- Addresses of the Authors -- Evolution or Development? / Zimmerli, W. Ch. -- Herder: The Legacy / Craig, Gordon A. -- Herders Holismus / Adler, Hans -- Nemesis-Adrastea oder Was ist und wozu dient Geschichte? / Maurer, Michael -- Herders ambivalente Zivilisationskritik an Aufklärung und technischem Fortschritt / Malsch, Wilfried -- Nemesis und Geschichtsdialektik? / Koepke, Wulf -- Königsberg and Riga: The Genesis and Significance of Herder’s Historical Thought / Menze, Ernest A. -- Herder and the Problematization of Metaphysics / Simon, Josef -- Herder’s Essay on Being / Baum, Manfred -- ‚Seyn‘ und ‚Daseyn‘, Sein Und Zeit. Zu Herders Theorie des Subjekts / Menges, Karl -- Changing the Subject: Herder and the Reorientation of Philosophy / Morton, Michael -- Critique of Subjectivity: Herder’s Foundation of the Human Sciences / Leventhal, Robert S. -- Kant, Herder, and Psychology / Arens, Katherine -- Herder als Promotor Hamanns: Zu Herders früher Literaturkritik / Knoll, Renate -- Literatur und Abitur / Müller-Michaels, Harro -- “The Theory of Art is its own History”: Herder and the Schlegel Brothers / Behler, Ernst -- Herder’s Concept of the Sublime / Schulte-Sasse, Jochen -- Semiotik und Philosophie bei Herder / Pénisson, Pierre -- Human Language of the Divine: Herder on Ways of Speaking about God / Bunge, Marcia -- „Gott als Schriftsteller“ Herder and the Hermeneutic Tradition / Mueller-Sievers, Helmut -- Language as the Mark of the Soul: Herder’s Narcissistic Subject / Mücke, Dorothea E. von -- Herder's Discovery of the Ear / Trabant, Jürgen -- Herder, Fichte, and Humboldt’s “Thinking and Speaking” / Helfer, Martha B. -- Johann Gottfried Herder und das Judentum / Adler, Emil -- Herder and the “Harlem Renaissance” of Black Culture in America: The Case of the „Neger-Idyllen“ / Solbrig, Ingeborg -- Herder and the Formation of an American National Consciousness during the Early Republic / Mueller-Vollmer, Kurt -- Zur Herder-Forschung in der DDR–Resultate, Tendenzen, Aufgaben– / Otto, Regine -- Index of Names -- Backmatter
