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

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, when Europe became synonymous with a tradition of peace and tolerance beyond national borders, and enter into a critical dialogue...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bemong, Nele, Truwant, Mirjam, Vermeulen, Pieter, 1980-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2008.
Colección:Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature 55.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Re-Thinking Europe; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; Introduction: Europe, in Comparison; Part I: Beyond the Nation? Inter-, Trans-, and Hypernational Identities; Europeanism in One Country: August Vermeylen, Paul van Ostaijen, and the International Approach to Nationalism; The Histoire anglaise: Towards a Cosmopolitan View of the Other?; Global Regionalism; Why the World Is Never Enough: Re-Conceptualizing World Literature as a Self-Substitutive Order; Translation and Its Role in European Literatures: Some Questions and Answers.
  • Th e (Im)Possibilities of a European Literary History: The Case of FlandersPart Ii: Performing Transnational Identity; Re-Thinking Ottoman Empire: East-West Collaboration in Orhan Pamuk's The White Castle; Kader Attia's Arabesque: Inscribing Islam in a Provincialized Europe; The Old World through a Baroque Mirror: Europe in the Work of Alejo Carpentier; Cultural Hierarchies, Secondary Nations: The Tension between Europe and "Minor" Cultures in Witold Gombrowicz and Jorge Luis Borges; Arriving in Eurasia: Yoko Tawada Re-Writing Europe; Part Iii: Conjuring the Past, Imagining Europe.
  • Staging a European Republic of Letters: (Supra- )National Concepts of Literature in Arno Schmidt's Early ProseEpistle to the Europeans (On Not Reading Kipling); Prodesse et Delectare: The World of National Literatures and the World of Literature; The Late Europe: Elias Canetti and the Ordering of Time and Space in Auto Da F©♭; Prague in Victorian Fiction: An Imagological Approach; European Identity from Normality to Immanence; Notes on Contributors.