'[D]as Innere des Menschen aufklär[en]': Poetry as Psychology in Moritz's Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde. (March 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dickson, Sheila
• Is Part Of: Publications of the English Goethe Society. Volume 84:Number 1(2015)
• Page Start: 18
• Page End: 29
• Publication Date: 2015-03
• Subjects: Case history, -- literary anthropology, -- K. P. Moritz, -- F. von Blankenburg, -- 'Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde', -- 'Anton Reiser', -- theory of the novel, -- theory of the Novelle; German literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Criticism and interpretation -- Periodicals; 830.9006
• DOI: 10.1179/0959368314Z.00000000045
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0959-3683

Abstract

Abstract : Poetry and psychology both aim to cast light on the inner life of man, and in the period of the Enlightenment this formed the basis for narrative theory (Friedrich von Blankenburg, Versuch über den Roman ) and practice (Karl Philipp Moritz, Anton Reiser ). In his journal Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde, however, Moritz presents psychological insights in short prose form that call into question the premises of both of the above through the kind of narrative instability that was to become a defining element of the Novelle genre in the nineteenth century.