Chinese Sympathies : Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe /
Chinese Sympathies examines how Europeans-and German-speaking writers and thinkers in particular-identified with Chinese intellectual and literary traditions following the circulation of Marco Polo's Travels. This sense of affinity expanded and deepened, Daniel Leonhard Purdy shows, as generati...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2022]
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Colección: | Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Sumario: | Chinese Sympathies examines how Europeans-and German-speaking writers and thinkers in particular-identified with Chinese intellectual and literary traditions following the circulation of Marco Polo's Travels. This sense of affinity expanded and deepened, Daniel Leonhard Purdy shows, as generations of Jesuit missionaries, Baroque encyclopedists, Enlightenment moralists, and translators established intellectual regimes that framed China as being fundamentally similar to Europe. Analyzing key German literary texts-theological treatises, imperial histories, tragic dramas, moral philosophies, literary translations, and poetic cycles-Chinese Sympathies traces the connections from Baroque-era missionary reports that accommodated Christianity with Confucianism to Goethe's concept of world literature, bridged by Enlightenment debates over cosmopolitanism and sympathy-culminating in a secular principle that allowed readers to identify meaningful similarities across culturally diverse literatures based on shared human experiences. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (420 p.) : 3 b&w halftones |
ISBN: | 9781501759765 9783110739084 9783110754124 9783110753899 |
Acceso: | restricted access |