@article{8054392,
  abstract     = {{The periodical landscape of nineteenth-century Germany renders issues of para- and metatextual communication in journalism highly tangible. It particular, it makes us reconsider then universalist notions of 'Kritik,' which heralded a close-knit interrelation between text and medium. In this article, I offer an analysis of Robert Schumann's 'Musikkritik' in order to expand on the intricate narrative empowerment of a journal's paratextual environment. Schumann introduced a fictional Davidsbund in his music criticism, which served as an intermediary mouthpiece for his opinions and views. I illustrate how Schumann uses key features of the journal's design and layout as a discursive vehicle of narrative interaction. Such instances of paratextual interplay decisively shape the act of informing and convincing the reader, and even go beyond such pragmatic aims. In its relocation of the hermeneutic, critical process from the textual environment to the medial surroundings, in fact, the journal defies its own autonomy in favor of an interartistic enterprise. In examining the journal's constant suspension of its own autonomy, my article argues in favor of a more integrated awareness of mediality which allows us to cast new light on the poetics and status of early nineteenth-century journalistic communication. As such, I hope to stimulate a more inclusive perspective on (fictional) authorship and narrative identity.}},
  author       = {{Hermans, Tobias}},
  issn         = {{0010-1338}},
  journal      = {{COLLOQUIA GERMANICA}},
  keywords     = {{Robert Schumann,Davidsbund,paratextuality,music criticism,periodicals}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{2-3}},
  pages        = {{157--175}},
  title        = {{Poetics of the periodical paratext : editorial footnotes and reader agency in Robert Schumann's Davidsbund writings}},
  url          = {{https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/26546364}},
  volume       = {{49}},
  year         = {{2016}},
}

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