Erschienen in:\u00a0Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik\u00a045.\u00a0Jg, Nr.\u00a0179 (2015), S.\u00a0134\u2013164.<\/p>\n
Abstract:\u00a0Rise and fall of the picaresque novel in the 17th<\/sup> century is subject of a long and intense academic debate. This paper attempts to develop a new evolutionary perspective on the genre by analyzing the motif of delinquency and its poetic functions. Three historical types of German picaresque novels shall be identified: (1) Early texts like Albertinus\u2019 Gusman<\/em> (1615) and Ulenhart\u2019s History von Isaac Winckelfelder vnnd Jobst von der Schneid<\/em> (1617) use delinquency as a means to gain individuality by moral deviation. (2) The devastations of the Thirty Years\u2019 War lead to a new type of texts. Grimmelshausen\u2019s Simplicissimus<\/em> (1668) and Moscherosch\u2019s Soldatenleben<\/em> (1644) address the problem that the political state of emergency legitimizes even extremely violent crimes. Thus, they illustrate the need to enforce moral rules against individual claims. (3) Late 17th<\/sup> century picaresque novels like the anonymous translations Der Abentheurliche Buscon<\/em> (1671) and Jan Perus<\/em> (1672) as well as Schielen\u2019s Der Frantz\u00f6sische Kriegs-Simplicissimus<\/em> (1682\/83) show that the formation of law not solely limits delinquency but also enables new kinds of economically advantageous crimes. At the edge of the 18th<\/sup> century, however, the possibility of individualization via deviation is replaced by the need of inclusion into the legal order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Erschienen in:\u00a0Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik\u00a045.\u00a0Jg, Nr.\u00a0179 (2015), S.\u00a0134\u2013164. Abstract:\u00a0Rise and fall of the picaresque novel in the 17th century is subject of a long and intense academic debate. This paper attempts to develop a new evolutionary perspective on the genre by analyzing the motif of delinquency and its poetic functions. Three historical types of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aktuelles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christian-kirchmeier.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christian-kirchmeier.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christian-kirchmeier.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christian-kirchmeier.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christian-kirchmeier.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christian-kirchmeier.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/christian-kirchmeier.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christian-kirchmeier.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christian-kirchmeier.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christian-kirchmeier.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}