From popular Goethe to global pop : the idea of the West between memory and (dis)empowerment / edited by Ines Detmers and Birte Heidemann ; with a foreword by Aleida Assmann ; Redaktion, Paul Ferstl und Rudolf Pölzer ; photo design, Daniel Wagner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Detmers, Ines.

Heidemann, Birte.

Assmann, Aleida.

Ferstl, Paul.

Pölzer, Rudolf.

Wagner, Daniel.

Series:

Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 166.

Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 166

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comparative literature.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (253 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; New York : Rodopi, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This essay collection embarks on a historical voyage into the idea of the West, while contextualising its relevance to the contemporary discourses on cultural difference. Although the idea of the West predates both colonial and Orientalist projects, it has been radically reshaped by the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the end of the Cold War and the 9/11 attacks. In the wake of these developments, this collection attends to the nebulous paradigm shifts that account for a reconfiguration of the conventional coordinates of the West (West vs. Rest, Orient vs. Occident). The essays featured in this collection draw upon a wide range of theories from a comparative perspective. Taken together, the collection covers a vast terrain of textual and non-textual sources, including novels, political and poetological programs, video-clips and hypertexts, while exploring the formal-aesthetic representations of the West from interdisciplinary perspectives as diverse as German classicism, (post-)modern Britain, Canada, China, Ireland and the postcolonial world.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Vorwort / Aleida Assmann

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 and Lucyna Swiatek

New Narrative Forms as a Subversion of Established Literary Norms: Walter Pater’s Marius the Epicurean and the Negative Bildungsroman of the 1880's and 1890's / Denis Simon

Look West in Anger’: Exklusive 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 Street / Ana Sobral

Notes on Contributors.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 27, 2014).

ISBN:

94-012-1000-4

OCLC:

862072838

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401210003 DOI