„Parler aux passions“ über die Französische Revolution. Schriftstellerische Probleme und Formen der Vermittlung in deutsch-französischem Schrifttum des 18. Jahrhunderts

• Autores: Wolfgang Theile
• Localización: Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift, ISSN 0016-8904, Vol. 64, Nº. 2, 2014, págs. 189-206
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • „Il faut, Monsieur, parler aux passions“, that was a 1795 editor’s idea of the German pub-lic’s expectations from reports on the French Revolution. Since 1789 German writers hadbeen travelling to Paris in order to become eyewitnesses to political events and social change,reporting to Germany in the most effective way possible. This essay is meant to find outmore about their method. The purpose of their devices of language and style was obvi-ous. The reader’s emotional response was to be stimulated by making political debatesand analysis come alive. To this end various 18thcentury narrative forms, effective meansof expression from theatre, physiognomy, painting and imagery have been used by theauthors. The possibility of an objective reporting in such eventful times has been ques-tioned particularly among more eminent writers such as Wieland, Campe, Forster andOelsner.