Collection Fomats: Practices of Reprinting between the Anthologisation of the Periodic and the Periodicisation of the Anthology

• Applicant: Dr. Nora Ramtke
• Subject Area: German Literary and Cultural Studies (Modern German Literature)
• Term: since 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 262766954

This project extends the Journal Literature research unit’s media-historical interest in periodical primary publication organs to anthological media for primary, secondary, and tertiary publications that are systematically or genetically related to nineteenth century journal-form publications. On the basis of a consideration of the specific copyright regulations that govern reprinting practices, the project aims to highlight the transitions, functional intersections, and reception processes that occur between periodical publication formats and anthological collections, while also reconstructing their preconditions. The project hence considers the journal/book distinction as two poles on a spectrum of possible publication formats, yet aims to address the wide range of publications that frustrate this distinction. To this end, it considers the diverse practices of anthologising periodically published literature on the one hand and the periodicisation of anthologies on the other. It assumes that there is a diverse range of anthological formats with a proximity to journals and that these formats play a particular role in conditioning the reception of poetic works. The project will therefore investigate those anthologies that collect and republish journal literature, that are published in association with journals, or that are themselves published in (quasi-)periodical publication cycles. The aim is to determine the conditions and status of reprinting practices in the context of the media literary history of the nineteenth century.

• DFG Programme: Research Units
• Subproject of: FOR 2288: Journal Literature: Rules of Format, Visual Design, and Cultures of Reception