Theoretische Aspekte literarischer Kommunikation
Theoretical Aspects of Literary Communication

Summary/Abstract: The article reflects on the possibilities of employing the term communication as a basic element of its theoretical constructions in the area of literary studies. My departure point is the conviction that literary studies are able to accept impulses from the systems theory only on the condition of being aware of their own constructs, their own term literature. Only a theoretically confident literary scholarship, i.e., aware of its own theoretical traditions, is able to conduct a productive dialogie with the systems theory. Everything else are merely clueless theoretical imports that only mask the meaningless of own theorizing. The reference point of my reflections is the 1996 lecture by Niklas Luhmann “Literature as communication”. I perceive this lecture as the starting point for the conceptualization of literature as communication and at the same time attempt to sketch the effects of such theorizing of literature on literary theory.

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