@article{Folkmann_2007, title={»Ein Roman ist ein romantisches Buch«}, volume={35}, url={https://tidsskrift.dk/kok/article/view/22305}, DOI={10.7146/kok.v35i103.22305}, abstractNote={<p>Umulige fiktioner i den romantiske roman</p><p> </p><p>»Ein Roman ist ein romantisches Buch«. Impossible Fictions in the Romantic Novel</p><p>In the Romantic period, the novel is regarded as a literary form that, by poetological necessity, makes experiments by means of literary representation possible. Seen in an European perspective this is almost solely a matter of early German Romanticism, <em>Frühromantik</em>, where Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis by formulating the novel as a specific, modern genre, try to state a new, revolutionary aesthetics. The article thus points at three characteristic features of the novel’s poetics within this context: 1) the novel contains a double poetics of formal heterogeneity and spiritual homogeneity; 2) the novel gets its value through its inherent epistemology of world views; 3) the novel of early German Romanticism understands itself in a productive split of an utopian vision that never can be fulfilled and an auto-reflexivity exactly because of the knowledge of permanent unfulfillment. Further,the article argues, an aesthetics of <em>impossible fictions</em> evolves as the potential and heritage of this kind of poetics. In the last part of the article, a novel of the Swedish (post-)Romantic author Carl Jonas Love Almqvist (1793-1866), <em>Drottningens juvelsmycke</em> (<em>The Queen’s Tiara</em>, 1834), is read as way of representing, through the constitution of the main character, Tintomara, a principle of the absolute that displays the borders of novelistic representation.</p>}, number={103}, journal={K&K - Kultur og Klasse}, author={Folkmann, Mads Nygaard}, year={2007}, month={jun.}, pages={188–207} }