Uni-Tübingen

C5: The aesthetics of co-creativity in early modern English literature

Project C5 reconstructs an aesthetics of collaborative authorship in early modern English literature that is ‘different’ from concepts influenced by ideas of the author as an individual genius. In the second funding period, the project extends its systematic approach as well as its perspectives by, on the one hand, analysing the communality of literary products (Working Area 1) and, on the other hand, the literary productivity of communities (Working Area 2). In addition to dramas and lyrical texts, C5 now increasingly includes pragmatic texts (e.g. sermons, treatises, manuals, contracts). The underlying hypothesis is that concepts of the communality of (literary) text production can be deduced not only from characteristics of and reflections on texts but also praxeologically from communities and their text production.

Working Area 1 considers concepts and models of production with respect to the communality of textuality. It builds on the assumption that, in co-creative processes, an interrelationship exists between the temporal production process, logical working steps, and the respective participants involved. Assuming that the form of community and the characteristics of its resulting texts are interdependent, Working Area 2 deals with the textuality of communities and the question: how is the concept of co-creativity put into practice?

Both Working Areas help to substantiate the praxeological model of interdependence between autological and heterological dimensions, which is decisive for the CRC as a whole. In turn, the CRC provides models of a different aesthetics which are essential for the concept of co-creativity, hence the inclusion of project C5 in project area C “Concepts”.


Team

principal investigators:

Prof. Dr. Matthias Bauer
Prof. Dr. Angelika Zirker

researchers:

second funding period:
Michael Göggelmann
Yves Herak

first funding period:
Dr. Sarah Briest
Sara Rogalski
Sandra-Madeleine Wetzel

associated:

Dr. Laurie Atkinson
Dr. Sarah Briest
Sara Rogalski M.A., St.Ex.
Julia Schatz M.A., St.Ex.

student assistants:

Patricia Klaß
Alexa König
Elena Mira Tara
Alexander Wiemers

 


Activities

Events

2024

Lecture: Zirker, A.: Recontextualization and/in Wandering Poetry: Commonplacing Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece in Bel-Vedére, Research Colloquium of the group „Itineraries“ at the Faculté de Lettres, Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse, 13.02.2024.

 

2023

Lecture: Bauer, M. / Zirker, A.: The Wandering Poem, or: Recontextualization and Co-Creativity in Verse Collections of the Early Modern Period, Keynote Lecture at the Annual International Conference of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature, Bukarest, 24.11.2023. (digital)

Lecture: Atkinson, L. [Ass.]: Co-Creativity in Early English Literary Print, College of Fellows Humboldt Lecture, Universität Tübingen, 23.11.2023.

Lecture: Bauer, M.: "We shall [...] appeare all one": Die Academy von Little Gidding und die Gemeinschaftlichkeit der Textualität als kollaborative Praxis, TROJA Konferenz: „Kollaborative Praktiken in den Künsten der Frühen Neuzeit", 09.–11.11.2023, Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg, 10.11.2023. Weitere Informationen zur Veranstaltung finden sich auf dieser Seite.

Lecture: Bauer, M. / Zirker, A.: Little Gidding: Leseort und Lesepraxis, Workshop: „Leseorte – Lesepraxen“, Workshop der FOR 2828, 03.–04.11.2023, Universität Tübingen, 04.11.2023. Weitere Informationen zur Veranstaltung finden sich auf dieser Seite.

Lecture: Atkinson, L.. [Ass.]: “Let clerkis ken the poetis different”: Translating Canonicity in Gavin Douglas’s Eneados (1513), 17th International Connotations Symposium, Kloster Schönenberg, 30.07.–02.08.2023.

Lecture: Manuscript, Early Book Society 17th Biennial Conference, University of Limerick, 11.–15.07.2023.

Lecture: Atkinson, L.. [Ass.]: “Let clerkis ken the poetis different”: Aeneid, “Book XIII” in Late Medieval Scotland, International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 03.–06.07.2023.

Lecture: Bauer, M. / Zirker, A.: Strategien der Selbstautorisierung literarischer Texte, Ringvorlesung: „Textautoritäten / Textual Authorities“, SoSe 2023, Universität Tübingen, 27.06.2023.

Lecture: Wetzel, S.: Two very similar Dedications by Anne Cooke and Zachary Bogan, M.A./PhD Colloquium Bauer/Zirker, 26.06.2023.

Presentation of dissertation project and participation in summer seminar: Wetzel, S.: Co-Kreativität in englischen Vorworten und Widmungen der frühen Neuzeit, LMU-Princeton Summer Seminar: Challenging authorship. Hidden networks of the creative process, LMU München, 05.–07.06.2023.

Tandem-Lecture: Dr. Andie Silva (New York) / Wetzel, S.: if oughte be erred in the translation, remember it is a womans: Female Print Agents in Early Modern English Prefaces and Dedications, Universität Tübingen, 22.05.2023. Weitere Informationen zur Veranstaltung finden sich auf der Seite des SFB 1391.

Lecture: Bauer, M. / Zirker, A.: Theorie (und Praxis) der Co-Kreativität, Ringvorlesung: „Literatur- und Kulturtheorie“, WiSe 2022/23, Universität Tübingen, 18.01.2023.

 

2022

Lecture: Bauer, M. / Zirker, A.: The Wandering Poem, or: Recontextualization and Co-Creativity in Verse Collections of the Early Modern Period, Internationale Tagung Making Short Verse Collections 18.–19.11.2022, Université de Strasbourg, 18.11.2022.

Workshop: Early Modern Book Production: Co-Creative Specialists, C5, Universität Tübingen, 08.07.2022. 

Lecture: Bauer, M. / Rogalski, S. / Wetzel, S. / Zirker, A.: Co-Creativity and Specialization, Workshop Co-Creative Specialists, Universität Tübingen, 08.07.2022. 

Lecture: Bauer, M. / Zirker, A.: Die Ambiguität des Schein(en)s: appear – seem – shine, Internationale Tagung des SFB 1391 Die Ambiguität des Scheins. Dynamiken ästhetischer Praxis in der Vormoderne, 30.06.–02.07.2022, Universität Tübingen, 01.07.2022.

Lecture: Bauer, M. / Zirker, A.: George Herbert as a Collaborative Author, George Herbert and Eloquence, Cambridge, 23.–26.06.2022.

Lecture: Wetzel, S.: Communication in Early Modern Paratexts, M.A./PhD Colloquium Bauer/Zirker, 13.05.2022. 

Lecture: Bauer, M.: Nature’s Co-Authorship in Henry Vaughan’s Poetry, Symposium „‘Bright shoots of everlastingness’: Poetry, Spirituality and the Natural World” 05.-08.05.2022, Brecon, Wales, 07.05.2022. 

Lecture: Rogalski, S.: A Close Reading of George Herbert’s „Artillerie”, M.A./PhD Colloquium Bauer/Zirker, 02.05.2022. 

Lecture: Bauer, M. / Rogalski, S. / Zirker, A.: Dachziegel und Tinkturen: Ko-Kreativität und (überraschende) Interdependenzen, Retreat des SFB 1391 Andere Ästhetik, Universität Tübingen, 17.02.2022. (digital) 

Lecture: Wetzel, S.: Co-Creativity in Early Modern English Paratexts, M.A./PhD Colloquium Bauer/Zirker, WiSe 2020/21, 31.01.2022. (digital) 

Lecture: Rogalski, S.: Paradoxical Co-Creativity: George Herbert’s „The Elixer”, M.A./PhD Colloquium Bauer/Zirker, WiSe 2020/21, 24.01.2022. (digital) 

 

2021 

Lecture: Bauer, M. / Briest, S. / Rogalski, S. / Zirker, A.: Reflections on Co-Creativity in Early Modern Drama, Practices of Collaboration in Early Modern Theatre: Authors, Actors, Printers, Playhouses, and Their Texts, virtuelle Konferenz der Universität Passau und Universität Luxemburg, 04.12.2021. (digital) 

Lecture: Briest, S.: Some Body to Bear Me Company: The Logistics of Plotting in the Directional Plays, Practices of Collaboration in Early Modern Theatre: Authors, Actors, Printers, Playhouses, and Their Texts, virtuelle Konferenz der Universität Passau und Universität Luxemburg, 04.12.2021. (digital) 

Tandem-Lecture: Prof. Hugh Adlington (Birmingham) / Rogalski, S.: Co-Creative Preaching: Interdependencies  between God, Preachers, and Hearers, Universität Tübingen, 21.07.2021. (digital) 

Lecture: Bauer, M. / Zirker, A.: Plurale Autorschaft in der englischen Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit, Ringvorlesung: „Aesthetic turn. Perspektiven einer Anderen Ästhetik der Vormoderne“, SoSe 2021, Universität Tübingen, 29.06.2021. (coronabedingt digitale Umsetzung) Weitere Informationen zur Veranstaltung finden sich auf der Seite der Ringvorlesung

Lecture: Rogalski, S.: Donne’s Concept of Co-Creativity in Sermon 5, M.A./PhD Colloquium Bauer/Zirker, SoSe 2021, 17.05.2021. (digital) 

Conference: Sprachliche und Poetische Ökonomie: Ambiguität und Kleine Formen, Internationale Tagung des GRK 1808 Ambiguität: Produktion und Rezeption in Kooperation mit dem GRK 2190 Kleine Formen (HU Berlin) und dem LCB Berlin, 14.–15.05.2021. (hybrid) Weitere Informationen zur Veranstaltung finden sich auf der Seite des GRK 1808.

Lecture: Briest, S.: Give me your hands if we be friends: Early Modern Dramatic Epilogues, M.A./PhD Colloquium Bauer/Zirker, SoSe 2021, 26.04.2021. (digital) 

Lecture: Bauer, M. / Rogalski, S. / Zirker, A.: Prayer and Aesthetics in Early Modern English Poetry, 66th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Philadelphia, 14.04.2021. (digital) 

Workshop mit Sara Briest und Curtis Runstedler (Tübingen): Corporeal Creations: Bodily Configurations of Creativity, Universität Tübingen, 24.03.2021. (digital) 

Lecture: Briest, S.: Devil Spawn: The Pitfalls of Creative Embodiment in Paradise Lost and Frankenstein, Comparative Literature & French Conference der Lousiana State University (USA), 04.–06.03.2021. (digital) 

Lecture: Bauer, M. / Briest S. / Rogalski S. / Zirker A.: C5 Teilprojektsvorstellung / Zwischenbericht. Vorstellung des Projektbereichs C (C4, C5 und C6), 22.02.2021. (digital) 

Lecture: Briest, S.: Murder, They Wrote: Genre and the Detection Club, M.A./PhD Colloquium Bauer/Zirker, WiSe 2020/21, 25.01.2021. (digital) 

 

2020 

Presentation: Briest, S.: Brainchild: Human Creativity Between Promethean Sin and Radical Emancipation, Projektvorstellung, Projektbereichstreffen des SFB 1391 Andere Ästhetik, Universität Tübingen, 23.11.2020. (digital)

Lecture: Zirker, A.: Die Ästhetik gemeinschaftlicher Autorschaft in Romeo and Juliet, Romeo & Julia: Herbsttagung der Shakespeare-Gesellschaft, Weimar, 20.–22.11.2020. 

Conference: Ästhetik(en) pluraler Autorschaft: Literatur – Kunst – Musik / (The) Aesthetics of Multiple Authorship: Literature – Art – Music, internationale Tagung des Querschnittsbereichs „Individuum und Kollektiv“, SFB 1391, Tübingen, 12.-14.11.2020. (hybrid) Weitere Informationen zu dieser Veranstaltung finden Sie auf der Seite des SFB 1391

Lecture: Bauer, M. / Briest S. / Rogalski S. / Zirker A.: Reflections on Collaborative Authorship in Early Modern English Literature, (The) Aesthetics of Multiple Authorship: Literature – Art – Music, internationale Tagung des Querschnittsbereichs „Individuum und Kollektiv“, SFB 1391, Tübingen, 12.11.2020.

Lecture: Rogalski, S.: The Collaborative Process of Preaching, M.A./PhD Colloquium Bauer/Zirker, WiSe 2020-21, 02.11.2020. (digital) 

Presentation: Rogalski, S.: Communication and Co-Creativity in George Herbert's The Church-Porch: Projektvorstellung, Projektbereichstreffen des SFB 1391 Andere Ästhetik, Universität Tübingen. 27.04.2020. (digital) 

 

2019 

Lecture: Bauer, M. / Zirker, A.: ‘A sense variously drawn out from one verse into another’: Effects of Ambiguity in Late Renaissance Poetry, IAUPE Conference, Poznán, 22.–26.07.2019. 

Publications

2023

Bauer, M. / Zirker, A.: Die Ambiguität des Schein(en)s und ihr Erkenntnispotenzial: appear – seem – shine, in: Annette Gerok-Reiter / Martin Kovacs / Volker Leppin / Irmgard Männlein-Robert (Hgg.): Schein und Anschein. Dynamiken ästhetischer Praxis in der Vormoderne, Berlin / Boston 2023 (Andere Ästhetik. Koordinaten 3), S. 3–17.

Bauer, M. / Briest, S. / Rogalski, S. / Zirker, A.: Geben und Nehmen. Eine Reflexionsfigur gemeinschaftlicher Autorschaft in der englischen Literatur der frühen Neuzeit, in: Stefanie Gropper / Anna Pawlak / Anja Wolkenhauer / Angelika Zirker (Hgg.): Plurale Autorschaft. Ästhetik der Co-Kreativität in der Vormoderne, Berlin / Boston 2023 (Andere Ästhetik. Koordinaten 2), S.31–51.

Bauer, M. / Zirker, A.: Reflections on Co-Creativity in Early Modern Drama: Stylistic Adaptation and Practices of Collaboration, in: Critical Survey Special Issue [eingereicht].

Zirker, A.: “Better place no wit can finde”: The Compiler as Author in Early Modern Verse Miscellanies, in: Authorship (2023). S.1–11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21825/authorship.85738.

 

2022

Bauer, M. / Zirker, A.: “I consider Iceland / [...] a very nice land”: Communicableness and Co-Creativity in W.H. Auden’s and Louis MacNeice’s Letters from Iceland, in: Anna-Katharina Heiniger / Rebecca Merkelbach / Alexander Wilson (Hgg.): Þáttasyrpa: Studien zu Literatur, Kultur und Sprache in Nordeuropa, Tübingen 2022, S.325–342. 

Bauer, M. / Rogalski, S. / Zirker, A.: Tiles and Tinctures: Interdependent Co-Creativity in Early Modern English Literature, in: RANAM 56 (2022), S. 125–140.

Briest, S. [Ass.]: Murder, They Wrote: Genre and Collaboration in the Detection Club Novels, in: Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 55.2 (2022), S. 117–139.

Briest, S. [Ass.]: 'The Graves When They Open, Will Be Witnesses Against Thee': Mass Burial and the Agency of the Dead in Thomas Dekker’s Plague Pamphlets, in: Sebastian Becker / Philip Schwyzer / Estella Weiss-Krejci (Hgg.): Interdisciplinary Explorations of Postmortem Interaction. Dead Bodies, Funerary Objects, and Burial Spaces Through Texts and Time, Cham 2022, S. 211–229.

 

2021

Bauer, M. / Zirker, A.: Shakespeare’s Medieval Co-Authors, in: Stefanie Gropper / Lukas Rösli (Hgg.): In Search of the Culprit. Aspects of Medieval Authorship, Berlin / Boston 2021 (Andere Ästhetik. Studien 1), S.217–238. 

Bauer, M. / Briest, S. / Rogalski, S. / Zirker, A.: Englands Helicon, in: The Literary Encyclopedia 14. Oktober 2021, URL: https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=39340  (letzter Zugriff 15. Oktober 2021).

 

2020

Bauer, M. / Briest, S. / Rogalski, S. / Zirker, A.: Tottel‘s Miscellany, in: The Literary Encyclopedia, 30. August 2020, URL: https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=39340 (letzter Zugriff: 01. März 2021). 

Bauer, M. / Briest, S. / Rogalski, S. / Zirker, A.: Richard Tottel, in: The Literary Encyclopedia, 28. Juli 2020, URL: https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4429 (letzter Zugriff: 01. März 2021). 

Briest, S.: The Narrating Serpent: Two Distinct Representations of Authorship in Thomas Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveller, in: Cynthia Cravens (Hg.): Geniuses, Addicts, and Scribbling Women: Portraits of the Writer in Popular Culture, Lanham, MD 2020, S. 49–80.

 

2019 

Bauer, M. / Zirker, A.: Autorschaft und Mitschöpfung in der englischen Literatur der frühen Neuzeit: Von George Herbert bis William Shakespeare, in: Annette Gerok-Reiter / Anja Wolkenhauer / Jörg Robert / Stefanie Gropper (Hgg.): Ästhetische Reflexionsfiguren in der Vormoderne, Heidelberg 2019 (Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift. Beiheft 88), S. 419–443. 

Bauer, M.: John Donne: Songs and Sonnets (1633), in: Ingo Berensmeyer (Hg.): Handbook of English Renaissance Literature, Berlin 2019, S. 537–556. 

Zirker, A.: Aemilia Lanyer: The Description of Cooke-ham, in: Ingo Berensmeyer (Hg.): Handbook of English Renaissance Literature, Berlin 2019, S. 478–495. 

Teaching

Seminare / Vorlesungen:

SoSe 2023

Bauer, M: Why Shakespeare Matters (Vorlesung, Di 16–18).

 

WiSe 2022/23

Zirker, A.: Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (Seminar, Mo 10–12).

Zirker, A.: Early modern Literature and Religion (Vorlesung, Di 16–18).

 

SoSe 2022

Bauer, M.: Shakespeare and Religion (Seminar, Mo, 14–16). 

Zirker, A.: Shakespeare for Beginners (Seminar, Mo, 14–16). 

 

WiSe 2021/22 

Bauer, M. / Zirker A.: Co-Creativity in Early Modern English Literature (Block-Seminar, mit Prof. Dr. David Scott Kastan, 13.,15., 22., 29.10.2021, sowie 14. und 21.01.2022). 

Rogalski, S.: (Reflections on) Communication in Early Modern English Poetry (Seminar, Do 8–10). 

 

SoSe 2021 

Bauer, M / Zirker, A.: Identity in Shakespeare (Vorlesung, Di 14–16). 

Bauer, M.: Seminar: Ambiguous Shakespeare (Seminar, Di 16–18). 

Briest, S.: Ticket to Ride: Early Modern London and Environs in the Directional Plays (Seminar, Mo 10–12). 

Zirker, A.: Shakespeare's Wife (Seminar, Mo 10–12). 

 

SoSe 2020  

Bauer, M / Zirker, A.: Shakespeare and Co (Vorlesung, Di 16–18). 

Rogalski, S.: How Drama Works: Introduction to Shakespeare (Seminar, Mo 10–12).

 

WiSe 2019/20 

Zirker, A: Early Modern Miscellanies: Authorship and Dialogue (Seminar, Di 14–16). 

 

Abschlussarbeiten

Herak, Yves. ‘High events as these’: Shakespeare’s transformation of his sources into dramatic form: The example of Antony and Cleopatra, Masterarbeit (Betreuung durch A. Zirker und M. Bauer, SoSe 2023).

Herak, Yves: ‘In the wrong light anyone can look like a darkness’: Shakespeare’s Tybalt in Contemporary Fanfiction, Bachelorarbeit (Betreuung durch A. Zirker, WiSe 2021/22).

Wetzel, Sandra: The Printer(s) and/as Author(s): Reflections of Authorship in Early Modern Printer’s Prefaces, Masterarbeit. (Betreuung durch M. Bauer und A. Zirker, SoSe 2021).

Schatz, Julia: Divine Author(ity): Reflections of Authorship and Creation in Shakespeare’s Use of the _Deus ex Machina_Device, Zulassungsarbeit und Masterarbeit (Betreuung durch A. Zirker, WiSe 2020/21).

Rogalski, Sara: Co-Creativity in George Herbert’s The Temple, Masterarbeit (Betreuung durch A. Zirker und M. Bauer, SoSe 2020).

Kunz, Tobias: Your mortal author fashions well: Imagining William Shakespeare’s Authorship in Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, Bachelorarbeit (Betreuung durch A. Zirker, WiSe 2019/20). 

Activities

Our corpus and the corresponding annotation data set are available online in Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7701515

Exhibition: Bauer, M. / Rogalski, S. / Wetzel, S. / Zirker, A.: Ausstellung zum Thema „Co-Kreativität in der englischen Literatur im Wandel der Zeiten: von Shakespeare zu Fanfiction“, Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen, Juni 2022. To the digital exhibition and to the archiving of the digital exhibition.

Literary Anniversaries im Connotations Journal: Rogalski, S.: Not That Interchangeable: Middleton’s and Rowley’s The Changeling (1622), in: Connotations Journal: Discover Literary Anniversaries Dezember 2022, URL:  https://www.connotations.de/2022/12/01/december-2022-not-that-interchangeable-middletons-and-rowleys-the-changeling-1622/ (letzter Zugriff 05. Dezember 2022).


First funding period

Project C5 strives to reconstruct an aesthetics of collaborative authorship in early modern English literature that is ‘different’ from concepts influenced by ideas of the author as an individual genius. Instead of dissolving extant texts into a sum of fragments by single authors, C5 asks about specific practices, functions and the added value of cooperative processes and methods of text (and book) production. We will not only address co-authored works and their conditions of production but will also investigate reflections on the conceptual dimension of co-creativity as they can be found in the texts themselves, e.g. in the metaphors used for collaborative work, such as taking part in the weaving of a textual fabric.