Abundancy, Redundancy, Cornucopia. Techniques of Amplification in Early Modern Epideictics (A05)

• Subject Area: German Literary and Cultural Studies (Modern German Literature) ; Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics
• Term: since 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 405662736

Project A05, which in the second funding phase will combine rhetorical and linguistic expertise, studies techniques of hyperbolic amplification in Italian and German epideictic texts of the early modern period. These techniques are generally known in classical rhetoric as amplificatio. A05 focuses on forms of amplification that are particularly marked, elaborate, or even exaggerated; they are understood as figures of aesthetic reflection. In terms of literary and cultural history, they are situated in the context of the early modern argutia movement ('sophistry'), which originated in Italy and is a European phenomenon.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1391: Different Aesthetics
• Applicant Institution: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Sarah Dessì Schmid; Professor Dr. Dietmar Till