Ingo Stöckmann

Die Literatur des deutschen Naturalismus im Kontext der frühen Moderne. Neben den historisch-politischen und philosophisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Hintergründen präsentiert das Lehrbuch einzelne Gattungen sowie die wichtigsten Vertreter der Epoche und ihre Werke. Darunter: Gerhart Hauptmann, Johannes Schlaf, Arno Holz, Arthur Schnitzler, Rainer Maria Rilke u. v. a. Auch die Einflüsse des Naturalismus auf die reife literarische Moderne nach 1900 werden zusammenfassend skizziert.

Up to now, the marriage between literary studies and sociological systems theory has been exclusively consummated on modern literature since 1800. This study is the first to adapt systems theory to the entirely different structures of poetology in pre-modern Europe (1600-1750). Central to the approach is the hypothesis that although the differentiation of the modern literary system has so far largely been described as an >event

The end of the 19th century, which declared progress and the technical and scientific mastering of life as guiding maxims, saw a human capacity moving into prominence - the force of will. In the spectrum between the literature of early modernism and the philosophical and scientific conjunctures of the concept, this study reconstructs the auto-interpretations of modern culture which provide the empowerments and exhaustions of the will. In this, naturalism in particular emerges as a determining factor in the process of literary modernisation around and after 1900.