Resisting Pluralization and Globalization in German Culture, 1490-1540 : Visions of a Nation in Decline / Peter Hess.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hess, Peter, author.

Contributor:

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

German literature.

Nationalism in literature.

Globalization in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

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Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2020]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgments

Contents

List of Figures

Introduction

Part I: A World in Decline: Anxieties about Social and Political Order

Chapter 1. Order and Discipline: Visions and Anxieties

Chapter 2. Gute Policey: Saving or Disrupting the Order?

Chapter 3. Defending Order and Discipline in Dyl Ulenspiegel

Chapter 4. A Dystopian Topsy-Turvy World

Chapter 5. Innovation and Progress as Agents of Decline

Chapter 6. History as Decline and Brant's Vision of the End of History

Chapter 7. The Communal Order and the Problem of Self-Interest

Chapter 8. The Decline of the Community: Common Good and Self-Interest as Literary Metaphors

Part II: Staying Home: Resistance to Expanding Spatial Horizons

Chapter 9. Spatial Expansion and Its Narratives

Chapter 10. From Chronicle to Cosmography (and Chorography): The Rise of Synchronic Narratives of the World

Chapter 11. Ptolemy's Grid and the New Cosmography in Germany: Waldseemüller and His Legacy

Chapter 12. Emancipation from Ancient Concepts of Space

Chapter 13. Spatial Discoveries: Anxieties and Rejection in Brant's Writings

Chapter 14. Spatial Anxieties in Literary Texts of the Early Sixteenth Century

Chapter 15. America and the Epistemological Crisis of Space: An Afterthought

Part III: Globalization and the Nationalistic Backlash in Germany

Chapter 16. Theory of Early Modern Globalization

Chapter 17. The Emerging Global Trade from a German Perspective

Chapter 18. The Backlash Against the New Economy

Chapter 19. Macro-Economic Critique of the Emerging Global Trade

Chapter 20. Nationalistic and Xenophobic Responses to Foreign Influences

Chapter 21. The Global Spice Trade: Breaching Traditional Values and Violating the Divine Order

Chapter 22. The Backlash Against Globalization: The Rhetoric of Moral Decline and the Nostalgia Project

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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Print version: Hess, Peter Resisting Pluralization and Globalization in German Culture, 1490-1540 : Visions of a Nation in Decline

ISBN:

9783110674927

3110674920

Publisher Number:

40030337312

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