Imagology : : the cultural construction and literary representation of national characters : a critical survey / / edited by Manfred Beller and Joep Leerssen.

• Superior document: Studia imagologica ; 13
• TeilnehmendeR: Beller, Manfred.; Leerssen, Joseph Th. 1955-
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Rodopi,, 2007.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Studia Imagologica 13.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (476 pages).
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Perception, image, imagology /; Imagology: History and method /; Ethnic images in classical antiquity /; Medieval peoples imagined /; The poetics and anthropology of national character (1500-2000) /; Illustration: Völkertafelor Tableau of Nationalities --; Africa /; America 1: Native North Americans /; America 2: Native South Americans /; America 3: United States /; Arabs /; Australia /; Austrians /; Balkans /; Belgium /; Canada /; Caucasus /; Celts /; Central Asia /; China /; Creoles /; Czechs /; Danes /; Dutch /; English /; Finns /; French /; Germans /; Greeks /; ‘Gypsies’ /; Hungarians /; Iceland /; India /; Indochina /; Indonesia /; Iran /; Irish /; Italians /; Japan /; Jews /; Latin America /; Maghreb /; Norwegians /; Poles /; Polynesia /; Portuguese /; Romanians /; Russians /; Scots /; Serbs /; Slavs /; Spaniards /; Swedes /; Swiss /; Tibet /; Turkey /; Illustration: Eckebrecht’s Nova orbis terrarum of 1630 --; Anthropology /; Barbarian /; Body /; Cartography /; Centre/periphery /; Character (dramatic) /; Character (moral) /; Character (narrative) /; Children’s literature /; Cinema /; Cliché /; Climate /; Colonialism /; Comics /; Comparison /; Cosmopolitanism /; Discourse /; East/West /; Encyclopedia /; Ethnocentrism, Eurocentrism /; Exoticism /; Foreigner /; Gender --; Hero /; Honour/shame /; Identity/alterity/hybridity /; Image /; Imagination, imaginary /; Intercultural management /; Irony /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 459-476).
• ISBN: 9004358137
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Manfred Beller and Joep Leerssen.

How do national stereotypes emerge? To which extent are they determined by historical or ideological circumstances, or else by cultural, literary or discursive conventions? This first inclusive critical compendium on national characterizations and national (cultural or ethnic) stereotypes contains 120 articles by 73 contributors. Its three parts offer [1] a number of in-depth survey articles on ethnic and national images in European literatures and cultures over many centuries; [2] an encyclopedic survey of the stereotypes and characterizations traditionally ascribed to various ethnicities and nationalities; and [3] a conspectus of relevant concepts in various cultural fields and scholarly disciplines. The volume as a whole, as well as each of the articles, has extensive bibliographies for further critical reading. Imagology is intended both for students and for senior scholars, facilitating not only a first acquaintance with the historical development, typology and poetics of national stereotypes, but also a deepening of our understanding and analytical perspective by interdisciplinary and comparative contextualization and extensive cross-referencing.