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.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam, Netherlands ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2013. ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;
166 Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 166. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (253 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of 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.