Re-thinking Europe : : literature and (trans)national identity /

Re-thinking Europe : : literature and (trans)national identity / / edited by Nele Bemong, Mirjam Truwant and Pieter Vermeulen.

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Re-Thinking Europe sets out to investigate the place of the idea of Europe in literature and comparative literary studies. The essays in this collection turn to the past, in which Europe became synonymous with a tradition of peace and tolerance beyond national borders, and enter into a critical dial...

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TeilnehmendeR:
Bemong, Nele.
Truwant, Mirjam.
Vermeulen, Pieter.
Year of Publication:2008
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature 55.
Physical Description:1 online resource (271 p.)
Notes:Title from PDF title page (viewed Feb. 5, 2008).
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Europe, in Comparison / Nele Bemong , Mirjam Truwant and Pieter Vermeulen
  • Europeanism in One Country: August Vermeylen, Paul van Ostaijen, and the International Approach to Nationalism / Matthijs de Ridder
  • The Histoire anglaise: Towards a Cosmopolitan View of the Other? / Beatrijs Vanacker
  • Global Regionalism / David Damrosch
  • Why the World Is Never Enough: Re-Conceptualizing World Literature as a Self-Substitutive Order / Michael Boyden
  • Translation and Its Role in European Literatures: Some Questions and Answers / Lieven D’hulst
  • The (Im)Possibilities of a European Literary History: The Case of Flanders / Ben van Humbeeck
  • Re-Thinking Ottoman Empire: East-West Collaboration in Orhan Pamuk’s The White Castle / Nagihan Haliloğlu
  • Kader Attia’s Arabesque: Inscribing Islam in a Provincialized Europe / Mary Stevens
  • The Old World through a Baroque Mirror: Europe in the Work of Alejo Carpentier / Reindert Dhondt
  • Cultural Hierarchies, Secondary Nations: The Tension between Europe and “Minor” Cultures in Witold Gombrowicz and Jorge Luis Borges / Silvana Mandolessi
  • Arriving in Eurasia: Yoko Tawada Re-Writing Europe / Kari van Dijk
  • Staging a European Republic of Letters: (Supra-)National Concepts of Literature in Arno Schmidt’s Early Prose / Iannis Goerlandt
  • Epistle to the Europeans (On Not Reading Kipling) / Ortwin de Graef
  • Prodesse et Delectare: The World of National Literatures and the World of Literature / Herbert Grabes
  • The Late Europe: Elias Canetti and the Ordering of Time and Space in Auto Da Fé / Jeppe Ilkjær
  • Prague in Victorian Fiction: An Imagological Approach / Iulius Hondrila
  • European Identity from Normality to Immanence / Bart Keunen
  • Notes on Contributors.

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