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Germany and the imagined East / edited by Lee M. Roberts.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference, Corporate Author.
- Conference Name:
- Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference (12th : 2004 : University of California, Berkeley)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- German literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- German literature.
- German literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Orientalism in literature.
- Europe, Eastern--In literature.
- Europe, Eastern.
- Middle East--In literature.
- Middle East.
- East Asia--In literature.
- East Asia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (219 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- German-speaking Europe is an array of images that have emerged from varied discourses about itself and its neighbors, and "Germany and the Imagined East" revolves around the exchange of views on and in the vast construct called "the East." The world has been divided conceptually in countless ways, but the works in this volume treat aspects of Germany as both part of and also separate from any perception of an eastern border. From the former German Democratic Republic,"East Germany," to Österr...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF IMAGES; PREFACE; PART I; DIS-MEMBERING AND RE-MEMBERING THE GDR; MAKING NEW ENEMIES; LIEGT BOHMEN NOCH AM MEER?; THE SECRETS OF THE KAZABAIKA; PART II; HABERMAS AND HIS YUGOSLAVIA; IMAGINING THE EAST; INVITING BARBARISM; PART III; ORIENTALISM, EXPRESSIONISM, IMPERIALISM; NIETZSCHE'S ZARATHUSTRA; "CROUCHING TIGER" AND HIDDEN DESIRES; PART IV; "SO THAT ASIA CAN BECOME GREAT""; THE ORIENTALIST REFLECTION; BRECHT AND THE CHINESE EXPERIMENT IN THEATER; IMAGINARY TERRAIN OF GERMAN ORIENTALISM
- Notes:
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Papers presented at the 12th annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference held Mar. 13-14, 2004, at the University of California, Berkeley.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-904303-61-7
- 9786612035777
- 1-282-03577-0
- 1-4438-0419-3
- OCLC:
- 815768840
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