Critische Dichtkunst

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Critische Dichtkunst is an influential 18th-century German treatise on poetics and literary theory by Johann Christoph Gottsched that helped shape Enlightenment-era German literature and drama.

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instanceOf 18th-century book
literary treatise
poetics treatise
work of literary theory
aim to align German literature with Enlightenment ideals
to reform German drama
to systematize rules of poetry in German
associatedPlace Leipzig
associatedWith Johann Christoph Gottsched
audience German writers
dramatists
poets
author Johann Christoph Gottsched
countryOfOrigin Electorate of Saxony
Holy Roman Empire
field literary criticism
genre literary theory
poetics
historicalSignificance foundational work of German literary criticism
major codification of Enlightenment poetics in German
influenced German drama
German literature
German neoclassical tragedy
influencedBy Aristotle
French classicism
Horace
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
surface form: Nicolas Boileau
keyConcept decorum
imitation of nature
rules-based poetics
unity of action
language German
literaryMovement German Enlightenment
mainSubject aesthetics
drama theory
poetics
rhetoric
movement Age of Enlightenment
surface form: Enlightenment
notableFor shaping Enlightenment-era German drama
shaping Enlightenment-era German literature
originalTitle Versuch einer critischen Dichtkunst vor die Deutschen
period Enlightenment era
publicationCentury 18th century
theoreticalBasis Poetics
surface form: Aristotelian poetics

rationalist aesthetics
title Critische Dichtkunst self-link

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Johann Christoph Gottsched notableWork Critische Dichtkunst
Gottsched notableWork Critische Dichtkunst
subject surface form: Johann Christoph Gottsched
Critische Dichtkunst title Critische Dichtkunst self-link