{"id":82,"date":"2016-08-22T22:11:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T20:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journalliteratur.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de\/?page_id=82"},"modified":"2017-05-05T14:14:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T12:14:20","slug":"zeitschrift-tp-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/journalliteratur.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de\/gb\/zeitschrift-tp-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Zeit\/Schrift (Journal: Time\/Writing): Journal Literature \u2018Chronopoetics\u2019 and the Genesis of Literariness (SP 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Central to the project is the interface between \u2018time\u2019 and \u2018writing\u2019 inherent in the media formats of magazine and newspaper, which means journals are already conceptually identified as specifically time-dependent and time-related media formats. In Die Realit\u00e4t der Massenmedien<\/em> in 1966 (The Reality of the Mass Media<\/em>), Niklas Luhmann drew attention to the \u201cevolutionary improbability\u201d of \u201cdaily news\u201d, for \u201cif it is the idea of surprise, of something new, interesting and newsworthy which we associate with news, then it would seem much more sensible not to report it in the same format every day, but to wait for something to happen and then to publicize it\u201d (p. 25). The sub-project \u201cZeit\/Schrift\u201d (\u201cJournal\u201d: \u201cTime\/Writing\u201d) takes as its systematic starting point the fact that neither the periodical writing of time nor the resulting insight into the \u2018poeietic\u2019 potential of the media distribution of journal reportage is self-evident; its epistemological interest is in a \u2018chronopoetics\u2019 of journal publication. It examines newspaper-like journals which opt out of the periodicity intrinsic to journals \u2013 thereby exposing this as something that is not self-evident \u2013 and can therefore be read as experiments in media format. In the research group\u2019s definition of the title, the sub-project accentuates not literature but the journal. It focuses its attention on contemporary, non-literary journals and uses these as a starting point for asking where literariness begins. It understands the \u2018chronopoetic\u2019 arrangement of time-writing as the nucleus of literariness. This time-writing becomes semanticisable where periodical timing is not self-evident.<\/p>\n

In this context, German-language journal publication during the Napoleonic wars of 1813-15 is construed as a laboratory in which, in this interim of real and extreme press freedom, the theoretical possibilities of the medium of the journal are explored and microscopically observed. Particular attention is given to journals which a) are re-established within this period with explicit reference to time and, at the same time, contain irregularities, b) are conceived as \u2018chronicles\u2019 in their generic format, combining political history and military matters with literary and cultural topics, and c) refer to their own status as journals. The core corpus comprises six journals across the whole course of their publication, of which four of them are characterised by significant irregularities in their periodicity and the remaining two are not detemined by regularity but are published \u201cin informal issues\u201d:<\/p>\n