German literature as world literature / edited by Thomas Oliver Beebee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beebee, Thomas O., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German literature--Appreciation.

German literature.

German literature--History and criticism.

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Bloomsbury, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This new collection investigates German literature in its international dimensions. While no single volume can deal comprehensively with such a vast topic, the nine contributors cover a wide historical range, with a variety of approaches and authors represented. Together, the essays begin to adumbrate the systematic nature of the relations between German national literature and world literature as these have developed through institutions, cultural networks, and individual authors. In the last two decades, discussions of world literature--literature that resonates beyond its original linguistic and cultural contexts--have come increasingly to the forefront of theoretical investigations of literature. One reason for the explosion of world literature theory, pedagogy and methodology is the difficulty of accomplishing either world literature criticism, or world literary history. The capaciousness, as well as the polylingual and multicultural features of world literature present formidable obstacles to its study, and call for a collaborative approach that conjoins a variety of expertise. To that end, this collection contributes to the critical study of world literature in its textual, institutional, and translatorial reality, while at the same time highlighting a question that has hitherto received insufficient scholarly attention: what is the relation between national and world literatures, or, more specifically, in what senses do national literatures systematically participate in (or resist) world literature?"--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction: departures, emanations, intersections

Goethe's Weltliteratur/world literature. Chunjie Zhang: Reading Goethe's elective affinities (Die Wahlverwandtschaften) through The story of the stone (Hong Lou Meng): immanent divinity, vegetative femininity, and the mood of transience

Daniel Purdy: Goethe, Rémusat and the Chinese novel: translation and the circulation of world literature

Ausstrahlungen/emanations. Simona Moti: Between political engagement and political unconscious: Hugo Von Hofmannsthal and the Slavic East

Kathleen l. Komar: Rainer Maria Rilke: German speaker, world author

Martina Kolb: Bertolt Brecht homme du monde: exile, Verfremdung, and Weltliteratur

David Kim: Militant melancholia, or remembering historical traumas: W. G. Sebald's Die Ringe des Saturn

Schnittmengen/intersections. Thomas O. Beebee: From Nobel to nothingness: the negative monumentality of Rudolf C. Eucken and Paul Heyse

Paul Nissler: A short survey of the creation and development of common German-Latin American space: Humboldt, emigration, exile and contemporary interaction

Elke Sturm-Trigonakis: Contemporary German-based hybrid texts as a new world literature.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-204) and index.

ISBN:

9781501317712

1501317717

9781628927009

1628927003

9781623561895

1623561892

OCLC:

881887833