Georg Brandes : : A Pioneer of Comparative Literature and a Global Public Intellectual / / Edited by Jens Bjerring-Hansen, Anders Engberg-Pedersen and Lasse Horne Kjældgaard.
Georg Brandes (1842-1927) was one of the leading literary critics in Europe of his time. His Main Currents of Nineteenth Century Literature (1872-1890) was a foundational text to the field of comparative literature and extolled by Thomas Mann as the “Bible of the young intellectual Europe at the tur...
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| Superior document: | Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 213 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024. ©2024 |
| Year of Publication: | 2024 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;
213. Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (350 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Preliminary Material / Editors: Jens Bjerring-Hansen, Anders Engberg-Pedersen, and Lasse Horne Kjældgaard
- Copyright Page / Editors: Jens Bjerring-Hansen, Anders Engberg-Pedersen, and Lasse Horne Kjældgaard
- Notes on Contributors / Editors: Jens Bjerring-Hansen, Anders Engberg-Pedersen, and Lasse Horne Kjældgaard
- Introduction
- “A Master of Productive Criticism” / Authors: Jens Bjerring-Hansen, Anders Engberg-Pedersen, and Lasse Horne Kjældgaard
- Part 1 The Comparatist
- Chapter 1 The Fox and the Stork
- Georg Brandes and the Institutionalization of Comparative Literature / Author: Ben Hutchinson
- Chapter 2 Georg Brandes and the History of Emotions / Author: Anders Engberg-Pedersen
- Chapter 3 Sexual Morality, Gender Equality, and Pioneering Women Writers in Brandes’ Comparative Writings / Author: Sophie Wennerscheid
- Chapter 4 Georg Brandes and the Writing of Typological Literary History / Author: Lasse Horne Kjældgaard
- Chapter 5 “The Prose of Life”
- Brandes and the Concept of the Prosaic / Author: Annegret Heitmann
- Chapter 6 “Bringing the Foreign Closer to Us”
- Cross-Cultural Literary Matchmaking in Georg Brandes’ Letters / Author: Julie K. Allen
- Part 2 The Public Intellectual
- Chapter 7 The Pétroleuse and the Prophet
- Georg Brandes and the Making of an Intellectual / Author: Torben Jelsbak
- Chapter 8 The Southern Prism of the Northern Breakthrough
- Georg Brandes and Italy / Author: Stefan Nygård
- Chapter 9 Brandes – Ibsen
- Rethinking the Modern Breakthrough / Author: Narve Fulsås
- Chapter 10 Between Deification and Rejection
- Georg Brandes as an Ambivalent Public Figure in the German-Speaking World / Author: Monica Wenusch
- Chapter 11 The Domesticated European? Georg Brandes’ Impressions of Russia and his Russian Reception / Author: Birgitte Beck Pristed
- Chapter 12 “The Universal Struggle for World Renown”
- Georg Brandes’ Global Literary Strategies / Author: Jens Bjerring-Hansen
- Chapter 13 Georg Brandes’ Erasure of Jewishness and Cosmopolitanism in his Later Writings / Author: Søren Blak Hjortshøj
- Chapter 14 “The Slaughter of the Youth of Europe”
- Georg Brandes and the Young Generation in The World at War / Author: Martin Zerlang
- Chapter 15 Brandes after Nietzsche
- Aristocratic Radicalism vs. Human Rights / Author: William Banks
- Back Matter
- Index / Editors: Jens Bjerring-Hansen, Anders Engberg-Pedersen, and Lasse Horne Kjældgaard.