Aspects of the Fictocritical - Einzelansicht

Dieser Kurs wird von Herrn Gerrit Haas angeboten.

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Like the kind of text it designates, the label ”fictocriticism” conflates fiction and criticism, making these otherwise neatly separated discourses almost indistinguishable in writing. At the same time, the fictocritical also inextricably intersect aesthetics with poetics and ethics. More often than not, fictocritical writing thus aims to both deliver and perform a self-reflexive theory and critique of our textual practices. While it has been productively conceptualised as generically in-between writing, as a marginal form for marginalised speaking positions or as a quasi-, non- or even anti-genre, trying to define the fictocritical at the textual or generic level can be a rather slippery undertaking. Instead, this course shall focalise the curious textual conduct of fictocritical writing: Which broader patterns and strategies can be discerned in its deployment of specific textual means? Which self-reflexive insights do particular fictocritical texts produce? And which wider discursive motivations do they follow in so doing? Which tropes emerge along the way? Finally, what can the fictocritical legitimately hope to achieve? (Rather topically, we shall also consider whether an argument can be made for mixing serious academic with playful fictional discourse in these times of alleged ‘post-truth’.)