Literatur als Übung: Johann Fischarts ›Geschichtklitterung‹

This study presents practice as a productive mode that allows literature to work on its forms. It examines Fischart’s Geschichtklitterung to show that literary self-formation does not occur autonomously but is grounded in historical practices. Fischart employed practices of Latin scholarship on all levels – from language to the macrostructure of narration – while refining his practice of German poetry.