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Title:

From popular Goethe to global pop : the idea of the West between memory and (dis)empowerment / with a foreword by Aleida Assmann ; edited by Ines Detmers and Birte Heidemann.

Publisher:

Rodopi,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

257 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

East and West in literature.
Comparative literature--Western and Oriental.
Comparative literature--Oriental and Western.
European literature--History and criticism.
Memory in literature.
Power (Social sciences) in literature.
Orientalism in literature.

Other Authors:

Detmers, Ines, editor.
Heidemann, Birte, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Einleitung : 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 & Lucyna Swiatek -- New narrative forms as a subversion of established literary norms : Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurean and the negative bildungsroman of the 1880s and 1890s / Denis Simon -- 'Look West in anger' : excklusive 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 Streeet / Ana Sobral.

Series:

Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 0929-6999 ; 166

ISBN:

9042037490 (pbk.)
9789042037496 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)862072838

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)