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Given that the dissemination of enlightened thought in Europe was mostly effected through translations, the present collection of essays focuses on how its cultural adaptation took place in various national contexts. For the first time, the theoretical model of 'cultural transfer' (Espagne/Werner) is applied to the eighteenth century: The intercultural dynamics of the Enlightenment become manifest in the transformation process between the original and target cultures, be it by way of acculturation, creative enhancement, or misunderstanding. Resulting in shifts of meaning, translations offer a...

Die augenfaauml;lligen Normierungsluuuml;cken der deutschsprachigen Barockpoetik werden zum Teil durch poetologische Vorreden gefullt. Dennoch bleibt die normative Gattungslehre des 17. Jahrhunderts insgesamt recht unverbindlich. Sie gewahrt damit kunstlerische Freiraume, deren Bedeutung bislang unterschatzt wurde. Diese Studie bietet eine systematische Analyse der gattungstheoretischen Vorgaben, welche in poetologischen Lehrbuchern und Vorreden formuliert wurden. Das materialreiche Inventar macht den Band zugleich als gattungsgeschichtliches Kompendium nutzbar.

Francois Salignac de la Mothe-Fenelon, Archbishop of Cambrai (1651-1715) exerted a considerable influence on the development and spread of the Enlightenment. His most famous work, the Homeric novel Les Aventures de Telemaque, Fils d'Ulysse (1699), composed for the education of his pupil Duc de Bourgogne, was, after the Bible, the most widely read literary work in France throughout the eighteenth century. It was also translated and adapted into many other European languages. And yet oddly enough, the question as to why Fenelon's ideas resonated over such a wide span of space and time...