âThe Prose of Lifeâ: Brandes and the Concept of the Prosaic

Annegret Heitmann

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Chapter 5 âThe Prose of Lifeâ

Brandes and the Concept of the Prosaic

äºGeorg Brandes

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As a starting point, the article takes Franco MorettiÂ´s definition of âthe bourgeois centuryâ as âprosaicâ to investigate BrandesÂ´ use of the concept of prose in his Main Currents. The basis of MorettiÂ´s approach is HegelÂ´s well-known idea of the âprosaic consciousness,â which he understands as a key characteristic of the modern world, thus broadening the rhetorical term into a diagnosis of culture. My question is whether and how Brandes, who was familiar both with Hegelâs philosophy and with Hegelâs antinomy of poetry and prose, used this as a guideline or an argument in the Main Currents to underline the connection between literature and society and a progression towards modernity that he (like Moretti) wanted to show. My reading of the Main Currents shows that prose and the prosaic are given some attention but are clearly not at the centre of Brandesâ interest. Even though strong sympathies for a prosaic style are visible, the prosaic for Brandes does not develop into a major aesthetic category.

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Georg Brandes

A Pioneer of Comparative Literature and a Global Public Intellectual

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ISBN:: 9789004682191

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