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Chinese Sympathies : Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe /

"Chinese Sympathies analyzes key German literary texts by placing scholarship on early modern Chinese empires and missionaries in conjunction with German media theory from the last twenty-five years (most notably, Friedrich Kittler). Daniel Leonhard Purdy traces a connection from Baroque-era mi...

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Autor principal: Purdy, Daniel L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [New York] Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Chinese Sympathies analyzes key German literary texts by placing scholarship on early modern Chinese empires and missionaries in conjunction with German media theory from the last twenty-five years (most notably, Friedrich Kittler). Daniel Leonhard Purdy traces a connection 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."--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (420 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781501759758
Acceso:Open Access