DOCSLIB.ORG

Anmerkungen Der Herausgeber

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Anmerkungen Der Herausgeber Anmerkungen der Herausgeber Stereoskop und Stereographie (1859) 1 In der Antike war von Leukipp (um 450 v. Chr.) über Demokrit (460- 371 v. Chr.) bis Epikur (gest. ca. 270 v. Chr.) die Th eorie verbreitet, dass beim Sehvorgang der Gegenstand im Auge einen materiellen Abdruck hinterlässt. Die vom Auge empfangenen Aussonderungen der Dinge bezeichnete man als „eidola“. Dieser Streuungstheorie stand die Projektionstheorie, etwa der pythagoräischen Schule, gegenüber, nach der das Auge die Umwelt mithilfe von Sehstrahlen abtastet. Vgl. dazu allg. Ralph Köhnen, Das optische Wissen. Mediologische Studien zu einer Geschichte des Sehens, München: Wilhelm Fink, 2009, bes. S. 48-51, sowie Lukrez [Titus Lucretius Carus], Von der Natur [De rerum natu- ra], übers. von Hermann Diels, mit einer Einf. und Erl. von Ernst Günther Schmidt, München: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1991, Viertes Buch, S. 181-234, und dort v.a. den Abschnitt „Bilderlehre“, S. 183-185. 2 Exuviae: fossile Überreste. 3 Laputa ist eine fl iegende, von ihren Bewohnern steuerbare Insel, die im dritten Teil von Jonathan Swifts satirischem Roman Gullivers Reisen (1726) beschrieben wird. Die hochgebildeten Laputaner geben sich ganz ihrer Leidenschaft für die wissenschaftliche Forschung hin, die sie jedoch ohne Rücksicht auf einen realen praktischen Nutzen verfolgen. Zu Beginn des fünften Kapitels erwähnt Gulliver einen Mann, der an der Großen Akademie (einem fi ktionalen Gegenpart zur Royal Society in London) bereits seit acht Jahren versucht, Sonnenstrahlen aus Gur- ken zu extrahieren und in Gefäßen einzufangen, um auf diese Weise bei schlechtem Wetter die Gärten des Statthalters mit Licht zu versorgen. Der betreff ende Forscher hoff t, in weiteren acht Jahren sein Ziel zu erreichen. Vgl. Jonathan Swift, Gullivers Reisen, übers. von Franz Rot- tenkamp, vervollst. und bearb. von Roland Arnold, mit einem Vorwort von Hermann Hesse, Frankfurt a.M.: Insel, 1984, S. 253f. 106 ANMERKUNGEN DER HERAUSGEBER 4 Das 1807 im 2. Arrondissement von Paris eröff nete Th éâtre des Variétés war im 19. Jahrhundert v.a. für musikalisches Unterhaltungstheater berühmt. Mit „Victoria“ bezieht sich Holmes aller Wahrscheinlichkeit nach auf das seit 1833 sog. Royal Victorian Th eatre in London. 5 Das in seinen späteren Jahren mehrfach umbenannte Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine („Knickerbocker“ steht umgangsspr. für „New Yorker“) existierte von 1833 bis 1865. Ab 1834 wurde es von Lewis Gaylord Clark herausgegeben, dem es gelang, mehrere pro- minente amerikanische Schriftsteller und Dichter als Stammautoren zu gewinnen, darunter Washington Irving, William Cullen Bryant, Nathaniel Parker Willis und Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Auch Holmes gehörte zum erweiterten Kreis regelmäßiger Beiträger. Holmes’ Verbundenheit mit dem Magazin und dessen Herausgeber zeigt sich darin, dass er mehrere Originalbeiträge beisteuerte und umgekehrt Clark seine Werke wiederholt lobend erwähnte. Darüber hinaus stiftete Holmes ein Gedicht für einen zur Unterstützung Clarks entstandenen Band mit dem Titel Th e Knickerbocker Gallery. A Testimonial to the Edi- tor of the Knickerbocker Magazine from Its Contributors (New York: Samuel Hueston, 1855). 6 Das Manuskript von Holmes’ Bostoner Vortrag wurde von Lewis Gay- lord Clark in sein „Editor’s Table“ eingearbeitet, mit dem jede Ausgabe des Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine traditionell endete – allerdings stellte Clark seinem längeren Zitat aus dem Vortrag die (wahrscheinlich scherzhafte) Bemerkung voran, dieses basiere auf der „phonetischen“ Mitschrift eines Zuhörers. In der von Clark wiedergege- benen Passage resümiert Holmes zunächst die „Geschichte von dem Prinzen und der Fee Perî Banû“ aus Tausendundeine Nacht (siehe Anm. 7 unten), um dann – wie auch im vorliegenden Text – die im Märchen beschriebenen wunderbaren Gegenstände mit Erfi ndungen des 19. Jahrhunderts zu vergleichen: Telegraphie, Eisenbahn und Chloroform. Der Ausschnitt endet mit den Worten: „How strange that civilization should call out, as palpable realities of our own every-day existence, the creations which were the idle dreams of storytellers on the banks of the Bosphorus and the Euphrates!“ Zit n. [Lewis Gaylord Clark,] „Editor’s Table“, in: Knickerbocker 33:5 (May 1849), S. 452-470; hier: S. 461f. Unter dem Titel „Romance and Reality“ wurde die entsprechende Pas- sage dann auch im Western Literary Messenger 12:5 (July 1849), S. 199, abgedruckt..
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Analogues and Resources for Poeâ•Žs Fiction and Poems
    Studies in English, New Series Volume 9 Article 15 1-1-1991 More Analogues and Resources for Poe’s Fiction and Poems J. Lasley Dameron Memphis State University Follow this and additional works at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/studies_eng_new Part of the American Literature Commons Recommended Citation Dameron, J. Lasley (1991) "More Analogues and Resources for Poe’s Fiction and Poems," Studies in English, New Series: Vol. 9 , Article 15. Available at: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/studies_eng_new/vol9/iss1/15 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the English at eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Studies in English, New Series by an authorized editor of eGrove. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Dameron: Analogues and Resouces for Poe MORE ANALOGUES AND RESOURCES FOR POE’S FICTION AND POEMS J. Lasley Dameron Memphis State University Perhaps no major American writer was more engrossed in the profession of journalism than Edgar Allan Poe. Some of his best tales and poems first appeared in minor journals or newspapers. His criticisms and reviews, however, were often printed in periodicals that enjoyed wide circulation in particular regions along the Atlantic seaboard. As journalist and critic, Poe spent many hours perusing contemporary periodicals and newspapers, some of which were ephemeral; others were major publications that included quarterly reviews, monthly magazines and big-city newspapers. Most notably, Margaret Alterton, Killis Campbell, Ruth Lee Hudson, and, more recently, Thomas O. Mabbott, Burton R. Pollin, and Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV have established Poe’s dependence upon a variety of journalistic publications.1 Poe’s comment in a letter to Thomas W.
    [Show full text]
  • Tales from the Magazine Prison House: Democracy and Authorship in American Periodical Fiction, 1825-1850
    Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses Graduate School 1994 Tales From the Magazine Prison House: Democracy and Authorship in American Periodical Fiction, 1825-1850. Laurence Scott eeplesP Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses Recommended Citation Peeples, Laurence Scott, "Tales From the Magazine Prison House: Democracy and Authorship in American Periodical Fiction, 1825-1850." (1994). LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses. 5750. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses/5750 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses by an authorized administrator of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. INFORMATION TO USERS This manuscript has been reproduced from the microfilm master. UMI films the text directly from the original or copy submitted. Thus, some thesis and dissertation copies are in typewriter face, while others may be from any type of computer printer. The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. Broken or indistinct print, colored or poor quality illustrations and photographs, print bleedthrough, substandard margins, and improper alignment can adversely affect reproduction. In the unlikely event that the author did not send UMI a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if unauthorized copyright material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. Oversize materials (e.g., maps, drawings, charts) are reproduced by sectioning the original, beginning at the upper left-hand corner and continuing from left to right in equal sections with small overlaps.
    [Show full text]
  • Herman Melville Have Been Invaluable.2
    University of New Hampshire University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository Doctoral Dissertations Student Scholarship Winter 1984 THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN AUTHOR: MELVILLE AND THE IDEA OF A NATIONAL LITERATURE DANIEL WARE REAGAN University of New Hampshire, Durham Follow this and additional works at: https://scholars.unh.edu/dissertation Recommended Citation REAGAN, DANIEL WARE, "THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN AUTHOR: MELVILLE AND THE IDEA OF A NATIONAL LITERATURE" (1984). Doctoral Dissertations. 1443. https://scholars.unh.edu/dissertation/1443 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Scholarship at University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Doctoral Dissertations by an authorized administrator of University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. INFORMATION TO USERS This reproduction was made from a copy of a document sent to us for microfilming. While the most advanced technology has been used to photograph and reproduce this document, the quality of the reproduction is heavily dependent upon the quality of the material submitted. The following explanation of techniques is provided to help clarify markings or notations which may appear on this reproduction. 1.The sign or “target” for pages apparently lacking from the document photographed is “Missing Page(s)”. If it was possible to obtain the missing page(s) or section, they are spliced into the film along with adjacent pages. This may have necessitated cutting through an image and duplicating adjacent pages to assure complete continuity. 2. When an image on the film is obliterated with a round black mark, it is an indication of either blurred copy because of movement during exposure, duplicate copy, or copyrighted materials that should not have been filmed.
    [Show full text]
  • Kindred Spirits 1848-1849 (LETTERS 634 to 666)
    XIII Kindred Spirits 1848-1849 (LETTERS 634 TO 666) THE YEAR 1848, crucial to the evolution of major European nations, was also a time of reckoning in American political history over the question of whether slavery should be allowed in the vast territories wrung from Mexico in the war then coming to a close. This conflict faced the editor of the Evening Post with an awkward choice. In his own state of New York the Democratic Party was so torn between its radical Barnburner and conservative Hunker factions that it had been impotent for nearly two years. In November 1847 it suffered, at the hands of the \'\Thigs, its worst defeat in two generations. Nationally, it was evident to Bryant that there was no leader after the death of Silas Wright the previous summer who gave promise of unifying the party after the antici­ pated retirement of President Polk in 1849. Bryant agonized over what course to follow. In February he wrote his brother John that while he was sure "No man pledged against the prohibition of slavery in the territory, or supposed to be hostile to it," would get New York's vote, there was no alternative candi­ date in sight, for there was little chance that former President Van Buren could secure his party's nomination. As for leaving his own party for one formed solely on the free soil issue, Bryant called that futile; "All parties formed for a single measure," said he, "are necessarily short-lived and are as much subject to the abuses and vices of party as any other.
    [Show full text]
  • New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Vol 24
    96JCNHAL-CK3Y COL-L^CTIOS* ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 01779 4493 GENEALOGY 974.7 N424NB 1893 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2008 with funding from Allen Country Public Library Genealogy Center http://www.archive.org/details/newyorkgenealog24gree THE NEW YORK Genealogical and Biographical feCANTitE LiBRARX DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF AMERICAN GENEALOGY AND BIOGRAPHY. ISSUED QUARTERLY. VOLUME XXIV., 1893 F- fyM «)'S PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY, Berkeley Lyceum, No. 23 West 44.TH Street, NEW YORK CITY. R : •V 63b»71 Publication Committee Mr. THOMAS G. EVANS. Dr. SAMUEL S. FURPLE. Kev. BEVERLEY R. BETTS. Mr. EDWARD F. DE LANCE? Pres» of J. J. Little & Co.. Astor Place, New York INDEX OF SUBJECTS. Alricks, Peter, of the Amsterdam Colony. Geo. Hannah, 125. Baptisms, Reformed Dutch Church Records, N. Y. C, iS, 71, 117, 162. Baptism?, East Hampton, L. I., 183. Brookhaven. L'. I. Abstracts of Wills, SS, 142. Bucks County, Pa. Extracts from Wills, 81. Collegiate Dutch Reformed Church Records, iS, 71, 117, 162. Darling, Gen. Chas. W. Antoine L'Espenard, 97. Donations to Library, 4S. 96. Covers No. 3 and 4. Du Bois, Abram. Memoir, with Pedigree. S. S. Purple, M.D., 153. East Hampton, L. I. Baptisms, 133. Fairfax Families of America, 38. Fishkill Inscriptions, 26. Genealogy. Crommelin, 67. Genealogy, Quackenbos, 173. Genealogy, Schuerman, 132. Genealogy, Ver Planck, 59, 60. Hannah, Geo. Peter Alricks, 125. Hempstead. L. I. Marriages, 79. Huguenot Builders of New Jersey. J. C. Pumpelly, 49. Islip, L. I. Original Patent of Saghtekoos Manor, 146. In the days of 1S13. A letter from Marie Antoinette Nichols, 179.
    [Show full text]
  • Chapter 1 Life
    Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-67691-5 - The Cambridge Introduction to Edgar Allan Poe Benjamin F. Fisher Excerpt More information Chapter 1 Life What has been termed the “enigma” of Edgar Allan Poe remains very much with us, even though he died in 1849. Some aspects of this enigma, which amount to slanting the truth, or to outright lies, originated with Poe himself.1 Others were supplied by persons who knew him, by others who supposed that they knew about his personal circumstances and career, or by still others who falsified the record because they took suspect “facts” at face value. Consequently, a “Poe legend” emerged, which retains widespread currency today. One may not exaggerate in remarking that a biography, brief or lengthy, of Poe is published nearly every year, although exceedingly few facts about his life and career have been discovered since the late 1930s/early 1940s, and much must remain speculative about that life. The most reliable biography continues to be Arthur H. Quinn’s Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography, which dates from 1941, but which as a factual narrative account of Poe’s life maintains its value. An introductory book about Poe, such as this, requires sensible biographical treatment. Much in his life was anything but sensational; more often it became downright drudging, but drudgery did not suppress or distort Poe’s amazing creativity. Whether personal circumstances provided the mainspring in his creativity may, however, be questionable. Poe is often associated with the South because he spent most of his first twenty years in and around Richmond, Virginia.
    [Show full text]
  • American Periodicals: Literature (Opportunities for Research in the Watkinson Library)
    Trinity College Trinity College Digital Repository Watkinson Library (Rare books & Special Watkinson Publications Collections) 2016 American Periodicals: Literature (Opportunities for Research in the Watkinson Library) Leonard Banco Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/exhibitions Part of the Literature in English, North America Commons Recommended Citation Banco, Leonard, "American Periodicals: Literature (Opportunities for Research in the Watkinson Library)" (2016). Watkinson Publications. 21. https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/exhibitions/21 ,,, ' ,,- I I - Series Introduction A traditional focus of collecting in the Watkinson since we opened on August 28, 1866, has been American periodicals, and we have quite a good representation of them from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries. However, in terms of "discoverability" (to use the current term), it is not enough to represent each of the 600-plus titles in the online catalog. We hope that our students, faculty, and other researchers will appreciate this series of annotated guides to our LITERATURE periodicals, broken down into basic themes (politics, music, science and medicine, children, education, women, etc.), Introduction and listed in chronological order by date ofthe title's Constituting one of the largest parts of our American first issue. All of these guides have been compiled by periodical collection, this material provides an extraordinary Watkinson Trustee and volunteer Dr. Leonard Banco. We portrait of the evolution both of American literature and the extend our deep thanks to Len for the hundreds of hours journals that made it available to readers on a regular basis. he has devoted to this project since the spring of 2014.
    [Show full text]
  • Nineteenth-Century Southern Editors and Their Northern Connections. (2015) Directed by Dr
    SPARKS, SUMMAR C., Ph.D. Bound by Paper: Nineteenth-Century Southern Editors and Their Northern Connections. (2015) Directed by Dr. Karen A. Weyler. 173 pp. Nineteenth-century editors frequently discussed their work in public forums (including their own periodicals) and in private correspondence. These sources provide insight into how editors imagined their work and their professional roles. For many nineteenth-century editors, one of the most important (and underappreciated) elements of their work was building expansive social networks that promoted productive relationships between writers, readers, and other editors. After establishing the function of the nineteenth-century editor in Chapter II, I proceed in the remaining chapters to examine how specific Southern editors attempted to gain access to a national audience by cultivating relationships with their Northern counterparts. Chapter III uses Caroline Gilman’s career to demonstrate the many ways that, despite her religious and family connections to the Boston literati, her gender prevented her from establishing the types of professional ties that could have advanced her career. Chapter IV analyzes the impact of the New York-based Young America movement on the career of William Gilmore Simms, and Chapter V contends that Edgar Allan Poe lacked the social capital necessary to successfully negotiate a professional relationship with New York editor Nathaniel Parker Willis. These chapters demonstrate the importance of social networks, particularly connections with Northerners, in the professional lives of Southern editors. BOUND BY PAPER: NINETEENTH-CENTURY SOUTHERN EDITORS AND THEIR NORTHERN CONNECTIONS by Summar C. Sparks A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of The Graduate School at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy Greensboro 2015 Approved by ________________________________ Committee Chair APPROVAL PAGE This dissertation written by Summar C.
    [Show full text]
  • Bryant, and His Friends W5 1886
    1 » - >7 «v ^V £ip N y m V0^ £^ \ ^ •3 OQ ! 1 fi^ ffii> C/3 <^1 < ^>N. ^ y <s ' H S vo t * ^s> ^ <« 'S (T .k P^ h a^ U >vV O > / . ^. ^ C. g sens Q Pm 1 :z; OS i < 1 *4 1 Digitized by tlie Internet Arcliive in 2007 witli funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation littp://www.archive.org/details/bryantliisfriendsOOwilsuoft ^"f^iyMBmi i.Scns- Hm'^'^ TOPtI 3, TOWARD ScH'JLBERT.N.T. BRYANT,^^'H1S FRIENDS: SOME REMINISCENCES OF THE KNICKERBOCKER WRITERS. Me thinketh it accordautit to resoun To telle yow al the cotidicioun Of eche of hem so as it semede me. And whiche they weren, and of what degre; And eek in what arraie that they were inne. — Geoffrey Chaucer. By JAMES GRANT WILSON, AUTHOR OF "POETS AND POETRY OF SCOTLAND"; "LIFE AND LETTERS OF FITZ-GREENE HALLECK," ETC. NEIV-YORK: FORDS, HOIVARD, & HULBERT. 1886. Copyright, 1885, by Fords, Howard, & Huldert. P5 When a man sits down to write a history, though it be but the history of Jack Hickathrift or Tom Thumb, he knows no more than his heel what lets and confounded hindrances he is to meet with in his way. — Laurence Sterne. That which a man saith well is not to be re- jected because he hath some errors. No man, no hook, is void of imperfections. And therefore, reprehend who will in God's name, that is, with sweetness and without reproach. — John Cowell. /79y^ PREFACE, The present volume might perhaps properly be called " Some Literary Recollections," for it has been the writer's peculiar privilege to have enjoyed more or less intimacy with all the " Old Guard " of Ameri- can authors mentioned
    [Show full text]