Poetiken informieren Uber Struktur, Funktion und Geschichte vor allem literarischer Texte. Dieser Studie geht es in erster Linie um die Poetiken lyrischer Texte: um poetologische Lyrik (von 1790 bis 1930) und um ihren Beitrag zur programmatischen, gelehrten und wissenschaftlichen Texttheorie in Deutschland, aber auch mit Blick auf ihre Rezeption in England und Frankreich.

Max Weber referred to Reformed religion and life-style as 'interior asceticism'. With reference to Francophone texts of the late 17th and the 18th century (instruction manuals, essays, periodicals, speeches/speech drama, philosophical novels), this comparative study on the history of literature and ideas shows that Weber's description, though accurate, does not go far enough. Reformed moral teaching stands not only at the (new) beginning of German literature in the age of Enlightenment, it also scrutinizes its own morality both at the 'empirical' level and in its dissemination through...