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From popular Goethe to global pop : the idea of the West between memory and (dis)empowerment / with a foreword by Aleida Assmann ; edited by Ines Detmers and Birte Heidemann.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 166.
- Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- East and West in literature.
- Comparative literature--Western and Oriental.
- Comparative literature.
- Comparative literature--Oriental and Western.
- European literature--History and criticism.
- European literature.
- Memory in literature.
- Power (Social sciences) in literature.
- Orientalism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 257 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2013.
- Language Note:
- Contributions in English and German.
- Contents:
- Einleitung : Annäherungen an den Westen : Projekte, Praktiken, Prozesse / Ines Detmers and Birte Heidemann
- Der Orient als Experimentierfeld : Goethes Divan und der Aneignungsprozess kolonialen Wissens / Anil Bhatti
- Goethe als Korrektiv : Klassiker-Entwürfe Benedetto Croces und José Ortega y Gassets / Katrin Schmeissner
- A lot of catching up to do : the West as a civiliser of post-Cold War Eastern Europe in Rose Tremain's The road home / Kathleen Starck
- The end of the West in contemporary anglophone fiction / Oliver Lindner
- Im Zeichen des Wolfs : die Schriftsteller Jiang Rong und Lu Xun als Grenzgänger zwischen chinesischer Tradition und westlicher Moderne / Michael Ostheimer
- Regional (re)conceptions of the Irish West / Susan Nitzsche
- Pulp, sci-fi and the politics of other fictions : face to face with Mohsin Hamid / Malreddy Pavan Kumar
- Embodiments of the West : texture and textuality of the symbolic body in Mohsin Hamid's The reluctant fundamentalist / Birte Heidemann
- Contradictions of human agency from Victorian cosmopolitanism to postmodern eclecticism / Niven Kumar & Lucyna Swiatek
- New narrative forms as a subversion of established literary norms : Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurean and the negative bildungsroman of the 1880s and 1890s / Denis Simon
- 'Look West in anger' : excklusive Emotopien in Christian Krachts 1979 und Salman Rushdies Fury : ein Beitrag zur Affektpoetik des neo-dekadenten Romans / Ines Detmers
- Towards a world revolution? : forging a transnational emancipation narrative from Tahrir Square to Wall Streeet / Ana Sobral.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9789042037496
- 9042037490
- OCLC:
- 862072838
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