Colored writing

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As Buntschriftstellerei or Poikilographie is called in the literature a literary collection genre that works summarizing that were aimed to present interesting facts about different subjects in "colorful" form.

history

The earliest works of this kind date from the Roman Empire or the Middle Ages and are usually written in Greek or Latin.

Colored writing is an early forerunner of the encyclopedia :

“The title of Älian's work“ Colorful Stories ”has given its name to a whole genre of ancient literature. "Colored writing" is not an ancient term; it is a term that modern literary studies coined towards the end of the last century in order to combine more or less all works that could not be accommodated in other genres. These are literary collective publications, the aim of which was to present interesting facts from all areas in a colorful form. "

- Hadwig Helms, foreword to: Claudius Aelianus , Colorful stories. Reclam, Leipzig, 1990 (RUB 1351)

The ancient authors and works of colored writing include:

An example of medieval colored writing is the Eadmeri monachi liber de sancti Anselmi similitudinibus ascribed to Anselm von Canterbury or his biographer Eadmer , a thematically structured collection of proverbs.

In the German literature of the Baroque period, the publication of popular scientific collections from all fields of knowledge was extremely widespread. Hundreds of such works appeared, often elaborately illustrated with copper . The most popular authors were Erasmus Finx , Peter Lauremberg , Johann Christoph Männling , Christian Franz Paullini and Johannes Praetorius .

See also

Literature (selection)

  • Hans-Jörg Uther (ed.): Strange literature (= digital library , vol. 111). CD-ROM. Directmedia, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89853-511-8 (electronic edition of numerous works of colored writing).
  • Flemming Schock (ed.): Polyhistorism and colored writing. Popular forms of knowledge and knowledge culture in the early modern period . De Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-027989-4 .
  • Ulrich Ernst: Polychromy as a literary aesthetic program. From the colored writing of antiquity to the color tectonics of the modern novel . In: Monika Schausten (ed.): The colors of imagined worlds. On the cultural history of its coding in literature and art from the Middle Ages to the present . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-05-005081-2 , pp. 33-64.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Flemming Schock: Knowledge literature and "colored writing" in the early modern period. Disorder, time reduction, conversation . In the S. (Ed.): Polyhistorism and colored writing . De Gruyter, Berlin 2012, pp. 1–19.
  2. ^ Wilhelm Kühlmann : Polyhistory beyond the systems. On the functional pragmatics and journalistic typology of early modern "colored writing" . In: Flemming Schock (ed.): Polyhistorism and colored writing . De Gruyter, Berlin 2012, pp. 21–42.