Crossing frontiers : cultural exchange and conflict : papers in honour of Malcolm Pender / / edited by Barbara Burns and Joy Charnley.

• Superior document: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 134
• TeilnehmendeR: Burns, Barbara.; Charnley, Joy.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 134.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (263 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Introduction /; Malcolm Pender: an Appreciation /; Malcolm Pender’s Peaceful Conquest of Switzerland /; Rütli: National Foundation Myth from an Individual Perspective. Hermann Burger’s Novel Die künstliche Mutter /; The Tash her Father Wore: World Literature, Joyce, Kafka and the Invisible in Kemal Kurt’s Ja, sagt Molly /; The Poet and the Princes: Eichendorff and the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha /; The Ways of Cities: Alice Rivaz’s Urban Landscapes /; All the Shores of the World: Max Frisch’s Push to the Sea /; Wolfgang Borchert in Switzerland /; Negotiating the Foreign: The Nineteenth-Century Swiss Experience of the Americas in Two Novels by Eveline Hasler /; Laurence Deonna: Journalist, Traveller, Feminist /; Travelling Strategies, Travelling Woman: Iris von Roten’s Swiss Book /; Der Lottoschein/The Lottery /; An ‘American’ German Novel? Ingo Schulze’s Simple Storys /; New Directions in ‘Mundart’ Literature: Hansjörg Schneider’s Adaptation of Friedrich Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell /; Un-Swiss’ Words in German Swiss Literature /; On Crossing National and Linguistic Borders: Zsuzsanna Gahse’s ‘Swiss-European’ Volume Instabile Texte /; Editors and Contributors.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 1282662724; 9786612662720; 9042029986
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Barbara Burns and Joy Charnley.

This volume brings together two very popular and active research fields: Swiss Studies and Intercultural Studies. It includes contributions on the movement of ideas, literatures, and individuals from one culture to another or one language to another, and the ways in which they have been either assimilated or questioned. All of the writers explore this general theme; some come from a literary angle, some look at linguistic inventiveness and translation, whilst others study the problems faced when crossing geographical and cultural borders or presenting ideas which do not ‘travel’ well. By emphasising the connections, borrowings and mutual influences between Switzerland and other countries such as Germany, Hungary, France, the UK, and the Americas, the articles reaffirm the importance for Switzerland of intellectual openness and cultural exchange.