Scenographies of Perception: Sensuousness in Hegel, Novalis, Rilke, and Proust

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Scenographies of Perception
Sensuousness in Hegel, Novalis, Rilke, and Proust

Christian Jany

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher

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Novalis (1772-1801), German poet and philosopher

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Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), German poet

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Marcel Proust (1871-1922), French novelist

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Studies In Comparative Literature 45

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14 May 2019 • 270pp

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Sensory perception and literary narration are sometimes regarded in opposition to each other. Paul de Man, for example, declared that ‘a literary text is not a phenomenal event’ and therefore ‘solicits an understanding that has to remain immanent’. In his study, Christian Jany challenges such a strict division by shifting attention to the interplay between perceptual and narrative processes. The introduction of key phenomenological concepts and, above all, Hegel’s conception of sense perception as a ‘story’ prepare this shift theoretically. The following analyses of scenic descriptions – or scenographies – of perception by Novalis, Rilke, and Proust demonstrate the interplay of perception and narration in practice. The things a Rilkean poem has us see, the subtle resonances of the opening scene of Proust’s Recherche, and the strange fusions of thought and feeling that some ‘blue flower’ generates in Novalis’s Heinrich von Ofterdingen are exemplary cases in point of this ambitious study in literary aesthetics.

Christian Jany is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Literary and Cultural Studies, ETH Zürich.

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‘Christian Jany’s Scenographies of Perception situates itself on well-traversed philosophical territory, but with a freshness unusual in a volume devoted to longstanding issues in the history of philosophy and theories of poetry and literature... A thought-provoking, cross-disciplinary account of the relationship between thought and perception that ought to appeal to students of German idealism and ro- manticism and their aftermath in the 20th century, and in a way that stays admirably close to the relevant texts and the concerns that animate them.’ — James D. Reid, Monatshefte 112.3, 2020, 555-57

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ix-xiii	Preface Christian Jany doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0kr.3	Cite
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xiv-xvi	Translations and Abbreviations Christian Jany doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0kr.4	Cite
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1-42	Introduction: On Perception and Narration Starting Points Christian Jany doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0kr.5	Cite
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45-53	1 the Dialectic Force of the Senses Christian Jany doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0kr.6	Cite
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54-74	2 Sense-Certainty (Process) Christian Jany doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0kr.7	Cite
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75-114	3 Object Perception (Relation) Christian Jany doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0kr.8	Cite
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117-159	1 Reciprocity of Perception and Poetry in Novalis Christian Jany doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0kr.9	Cite
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160-194	2 Looking with Rilke Christian Jany doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0kr.10	Cite
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195-224	3 Listening to Proust’s Recherche Christian Jany doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0kr.11	Cite
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225-230	Conclusion Christian Jany doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0kr.12	Cite
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231-248	Bibliography Christian Jany doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0kr.13	Cite
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249-254	Index Christian Jany doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0kr.14	Cite
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Scenographies of PerceptionSensuousness in Hegel, Novalis, Rilke, and Proust

Christian Jany

Scenographies of Perception
Sensuousness in Hegel, Novalis, Rilke, and Proust