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The First World War brought devastating consequences for German linguistics. Formerly one of the most prestigious foreign languages taught at schools and universities outside Germany, after the war German disappeared from almost all curricula abroad. Furthermore, it proved impossible to establish a structuralist school (such as the Prague school) in Germany. The article suggests that this was neither due to the long tradition of the Jungian grammarians nor due to the Nazis' official condemnation of structuralism as being incompatible with the ideology of the state. It is shown that such a development should instead be attributed to the so-called "Krieg der Geister" ("war of the intellect"), which remained present even after the military peace (1918) amid a feeling of national insecurity. The article concludes that such a nationalistic social and political environment proved to be fertile ground for Whorfianism, and the influence of the so-called 'Sprachinhaltsforschung' prevailed towards structuralism.
Rezension zu Doležel, Lubomir: Geschichte der strukturalen Poetik. Von Aristoteles bis zur Prager Schule. Aus dem Englischen von Norbert Greiner. Dresden, München (Dresden University Press) 1999.253 Seiten.
Im Grunde genommen hat dieses Buch gar keine Empfehlung mehr nötig. Es ist in seiner amerikanischen Erstausgabe 'Occidental Poetics: Tradition and Progress' (University of Nebraska Press 1990) längst zu einem Klassiker der "strukturalen Poetik" geworden. Deshalb sei hier lediglich hervorgehoben, dass die nun vorgelegte deutsche Übersetzung von Norbert Greiner stammt, der auch als Shakespeare-Übersetzer hervorgetreten ist.