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Midas statt Pygmalion Die Tödlichkeit der Kunst bei Goethe, Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal und Georg Kaiser
15. Berliner Kunstszene und Mäzenatentum im Kaiserreich. Wilhelm von Bode, Eduard Arnhold, Harry Graf Kessler
Stealing styles
The “uncreative writing” movement has quickly and firmly established its position as one of the prime examples for a genuinely twenty-first-century poetics. With regards to stylistics on the level of the text, the most glaring feature of works like Kenneth Goldsmith's “Kenneth Goldsmith Sings Jacques Derrida” (a musical reading/rendition of parts of Derrida's Of Grammatology) or Vanessa Place's “The laugh of the Minotaur” (an almost word-for-word retyping of Hélène Cixous's “The laugh of the Medusa”) is, quite simply, not to have a personal literary style at all. Despite its first (non-)appearance, this lack does not make the question of style obsolete—on the contrary: where other authors’ styles are stolen, the focus shifts to the specific styles of stealing themselves. This multilayered movement, the article argues, directly responds to a specific set of problems in post-structuralist literary theory and provides a key contribution towards (re)conceptualizing what literary style is—or, rather, was—in the first place