StilGestalten

An overview of the evolution of discourse on style since the end of the Enlightenment period is followed by a second section systematically reviewing present-day philological, psychological and didactic models of style and deriving practical and methodological consequences from the didactic model put forward by the author. The gist of his conclusions is that schoolchildren must (and can) learn to achieve a meaningful blend of originality and convention - both as readers and writers.