Tectonics (seal)

In poetry, one speaks of tectonics in the sense of a proper structure of a poem , the parts of which fit immovably into a whole, as in the so-called closed drama .

The expression in this usage comes from Heinrich Wölfflin 's pair of terms tectonic-atectonic , which in turn comes from architecture (see tectonics (architecture) ). The literary scholars Oskar Walzel and Volker Klotz transferred it to the design of dramas.

literature

• Heinrich Wölfflin: Basic concepts of art history. The problem of style development in the new art [1915], Basel: Schwabe 19th edition 2004. ISBN 3796502881 .