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In recent introductions to German literary studies one reads that the publication of Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther" was followed by a veritable wave of suicides among its readers. However, according to two studies that have collected and reexamined the few hints we have about such alleged cases the story of the suicide wave seems to be a myth rather than an accurate historical account. Why, then, do we still spread this myth? First, I outline a number of cognitive predispositions that might be responsible for the intuitive plausibility of the suicide story. Second, I try to explain why even in academic writing we often succumb to these cognitive tendencies. I propose that our discipline suffers by generally undervaluing empiricism and that this calls for revision.
O artigo analisa os paralelos entre o retrato do 'sujeito moderno em crise' visto no romance "Die Leiden des jungen Werthers" de Goethe e, por outro lado, o perfil psicossocial do 'homem do sentimento' do século XVIII, fruto da cultura da Empfindsamkeit. Defendo a perspectiva de que, no romance, Goethe não apenas se utiliza do formato literário mais tradicional da Empfindsamkeit (o do romance epistolar), como também se apropria de topói e técnicas discursivas que lhe são próprias em registro radicalmente heterodoxo. A argumentação nos ligará a uma dedução da visão do conceito de subjetividade moderna com que Goethe trabalha em sua fase final do Sturm und Drang, e que o situa como importante nome do discurso filosófico da modernidade.
Im Zentrum der Poetik-Vorlesungen von Orhan Pamuk, die der Autor 2009 an der Universität Harvard (Norton Lectures) hielt, bewegen sich die Begriffe Leben, Roman und Literatur, und zwar entlang der Schillerschen Beschreibung der naiven und sentimentalischen Dichtung. Diese türkisch-deutsche Literaturbeziehung über die englisch-amerikanische Sprach- und Literaturschleife ist aus einer türkischen Germanistikperspektive betrachtet interessant, da die Schillersche Abhandlung aus ihren theoretischen Grundlagen so plötzlich enthoben und auf einen lebendigen, das Leben berührenden Boden verortet erscheint.