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From popular Goethe to global pop : the idea of the West between memory and (dis)empowerment /

This essay collection embarks on a historical voyage into the idea of the West, while contextualising its relevance to the contemporary discourses on cultural difference. Although the idea of the West predates both colonial and Orientalist projects, it has been radically reshaped by the fall of the...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2013.
Colección:Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 166.
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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Inhaltsverzeichnis; Vorwort; Einleitung: Annäherungen an den Westen Projekte, Praktiken, Prozesse; Der Orient als Experimentierfeld. Goethes Divan und der Aneignungsprozess kolonialen Wissens; Goethe als Korrektiv: Klassiker-Entwürfe Benedetto Croces und José Ortega y Gassets; 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; The End of the West in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction.
  • Im Zeichen des Wolfs. Die Schriftsteller Jiang Rong und Lu Xun als Grenzgänger zwischen chinesischer Tradition und westlicher ModerneRegional (Re)Conceptions of the Irish West; Pulp, Sci-fi and the Politics of Other Fictions: Face to Face with Mohsin Hamid; Embodiments of the West: Texture and Textuality of the Symbolic Body in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist; Contradictions of Human Agency from Victorian Cosmopolitanism to Postmodern Eclecticism.
  • 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{608}Look West in Anger': Exklusive Emotopien in Christian Krachts 1979 und Salman Rushdies Fury. Ein Beitrag zur Affektpoetik des neo-dekadenten Romans; Towards a 'World Revolution'? Forging a Transnational Emancipation Narrative from Tahrir Square to Wall Street; Notes on Contributors.