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“Er hatte eine Wasserscheu vor Gespenstergeschichten”: The Ghost Story in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany in the Light of Jean Paul’s Novel Die Unsichtbare Loge
oleh: Elisa Leonzio
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Diterbitkan: | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 2010-08-01 |
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<p align="left"> </p><p><strong><span style="font-size: small;">Abstract (E): </span></strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Tales of ghost-seeing dominated the period of the Enlightenment, despite scholars’ attempts to explain away such phenomena rationally. In late eighteenth-century Germany, novelists increasingly drew on ghost stories, engaging in forms of self-parody and also demonstrating the lack of creative inspiration provided by a scientifically-explained world. This essay analyses how such ambivalence is reflected in Jean Paul’s first novel, </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Die Unsichtbare Loge </span></span></em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;">(1793), whose twentieth chapter includes a ghost story which both adopts and undermines typical features of the genre. </span></span></p><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><font size="3"><p>Abstract (F):</p></font></strong></span><p> </p></strong><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Les récits de fantômes ont joué un rôle clé à l’époque des Lumières, malgré les efforts pour minimiser rationnellement la place et l’impact de ces phénomènes. À la fin du 18</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: xx-small;">e </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;">siècle, les romanciers allemands se sont de plus en plus inspirés de ce genre d’histoires, dont le succès a donné lieu à des formes d’auto-parodie tout en montrant le peu d’imagination et d’inspiration offert par un monde en voie d’explication scientifique. Cet article analyse l’ambivalence de la fascination exercée par les histoires de fantômes dans le premier roman de Jean Paul, </span></span><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Die Unsichtbare Loge </span></span></em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman,Times New Roman; font-size: small;">(1793), dont le vingtième chapitre contient une telle histoire qui simultanément reprend et subvertit les traits typiques du genre. </span></span>