Zwischen Mythos, Rausch und Ennui: Die Künstlichkeit des Erotischen als Inszenierungsmodus von Autorschaft in der Lyrik Felix Dörmanns mit Seitenblicken auf Charles Algernon Swinburne und Maurice Rollinat

Assuming that the author is an artificial figure rather than an empirical, historical, or biographical reference, this article shows that Felix Dörmann's poems are characterized by a performative presentation of authorship and artifi cial self-confidence. Dörmann presents himself in permanent opposition to classical or conventional imaginations of literature and morality. By comparing and contrasting him with his contemporaries Charles Algernon Swinburne and Maurice Rollinat, this article tries to transform the negative and pathological reception of Dörmann's poems into a special understanding of their quality so that a provocative poem like "Was ich liebe" can be read as meaning, "Was ich liebe—no one else loves." Analyzing several poems by Dörmann, Swinburne, and Rollinat, this article adds to the thesis that the self- staging of authorship depends on literary works, because both categories are fictional and artificial.