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In dieser ersten wissenschaftshistorischen Gesamtdarstellung der Germanistik in Japan als akademische Disziplin wird die fachliche Entwicklung vom Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts bis in die 1930er Jahre aus einer Perspektive der Wissenschaftskulturforschung als ausgesprochen deutsch-japanischer transkultureller Prozess rekonstruiert. In den text- und rezeptionsgeschichtlichen, institutionsgeschichtlichen und soziokulturellen Zusammenhängen wird die Formation einer spezifisch japanischen Wissenschaftskultur der Germanistik rekonstruiert, die in der Triade von Wissenschaft, Bildung und Literatur institutionalisiert wurde. Durch die deutsch-japanische Spiegelung wird die Geschichte eines prominenten Beispiels der Auslandsgermanistik auch für die nicht-japanischen Leser transparent gemacht.

German literature --- German philology --- Germanists --- Study and teaching --- Appreciation --- History. --- Japan --- German studies --- Japan.

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How to gauge the impact of cultural products is an old question, but bureaucratic agendas such as the one recently implemented in the UK to measure the impact of university research (including in German Studies) are new. Impact is seen as confirming a cultural product's value for society -- not least in the eyes of cultural funders. Yet its use as an evaluative category has been widely criticized by academics. Rather than rejecting the concept of impact, however, this volume employs it as a metaphor to reflect on issues of transmission, reception, and influence that have always underlain cultural production but have escaped systematic conceptualization. It seeks to understand how culture works in the German-speaking world: how writers and artists express themselves, how readers and audiences engage with the resulting products, and how academics are drawn to analyze this dynamic process. Formulating such questions afresh in the context of German Studies, the volume examines both contemporary cultural discourse and the way it evolves more generally. It links such topics as authorial intention, readerly reception, intertextuality, and modes of perception to less commonly studied phenomena, such as the institutional practices of funding bodies, that underpin cultural discourse. Contributors: David Barnett, Laura Bradley, Rebecca Braun, Sarah Colvin, Anne Fuchs, Katrin Kohl, Karen Leeder, Jürgen Luh, Jenny McKay, Ben Morgan, Gunther Nickel, Chloe Paver, Joanne Sayner, Matthew Philpotts, Jane Wilkinson

German literature --- Culture in literature. --- Politics in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Political science in literature --- German Studies. --- academics. --- artists. --- audiences. --- authors. --- bureaucratic agendas. --- cultural discourse. --- cultural impact. --- cultural products. --- culture. --- influence. --- readers. --- reception. --- transmission. --- university research. --- Culture in literature --- Politics in literature