Pop, Literature and the “New Sensibility”: Theories, Ways of Writing, Aesthetic Experiments
A06
Principal Investigators
Team Members
Former Members
Prof. Dr. Georg Stanitzek (Co-PI)
Isabella Greiner (Researcher)
The literature of the New Sensibility (ca. 1965–1975) was deeply intertwined with popular culture and audiovisual media such as film, pop/rock music, advertising graphics, and visual arts. During the first funding period, the subproject established a canon of this literary formation, conducted an in-depth analysis of Acid: Neue amerikanische Szene – a seminal anthology framing New Sensibility texts as expressions of countercultural dissent – and examined the book design of works associated with the New Sensibility.
Central to the New Sensibility is a fundamental ambivalence toward the popular: its embrace of popular culture remains contingent on opposition to the pretensions of high culture. In its second phase, the subproject probes this paradox by analyzing programmatic writings of the New Sensibility, 1960s-era newspaper and magazine articles, and literary adaptations of popular motifs in exemplary “pop novels.” Additionally, it traces the movement’s popularization within the “Zweitausendeins culture” of the 1970s – a West German cultural phenomenon marked by the dissemination of avant-garde and countercultural works through affordable paperback editions and alternative distribution networks.
Veranstaltungen
Als die Geisteswissenschaften populär waren
Workshop
27. & 28. September 2023
Herrengarten 3
AH-H 217/218
Ein Kanon der Neuen Sensibilität: Vorschläge
Workshop
Ein Kanon der Neuen Sensibilität: Vorschläge
09. – 10. Dezember 2021
(Zoom-Veranstaltung)