From Popular Goethe to Global Pop : The Idea of the West Between Memory and (Dis)Empowerment. with a Foreword by Aleida Assmann.
Detmers, Ines.
From Popular Goethe to Global Pop : The Idea of the West Between Memory and (Dis)Empowerment. with a Foreword by Aleida Assmann. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (257 pages) - Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Series ; v.166 . - Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Series .
Intro -- From Popular Goethe to Global Pop: The Idea of the West between Memory and (Dis)Empowerment With a Foreword by Aleida Assmann -- 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 Moderne -- Regional (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 -- ‚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.
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 Berlin Wall in 1989, the end of the Cold War and the 9/11 attacks. In the wake of these developments, this collection attends to the nebulous paradigm shifts that account for a reconfiguration of the conventional coordinates of the West (West vs. Rest, Orient vs. Occident). The essays featured in this collection draw upon a wide range of theories from a comparative perspective. Taken together, the collection covers a vast terrain of textual and non-textual sources, including novels, political and poetological programs, video-clips and hypertexts, while exploring the formal-aesthetic representations of the West from interdisciplinary perspectives as diverse as German classicism, (post-)modern Britain, Canada, China, Ireland and the postcolonial world.
9789401210003
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,-1749-1832.
Comparative literature.
Electronic books.
PT2051 .F766 2013
831.6
From Popular Goethe to Global Pop : The Idea of the West Between Memory and (Dis)Empowerment. with a Foreword by Aleida Assmann. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (257 pages) - Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Series ; v.166 . - Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Series .
Intro -- From Popular Goethe to Global Pop: The Idea of the West between Memory and (Dis)Empowerment With a Foreword by Aleida Assmann -- 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 Moderne -- Regional (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 -- ‚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.
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 Berlin Wall in 1989, the end of the Cold War and the 9/11 attacks. In the wake of these developments, this collection attends to the nebulous paradigm shifts that account for a reconfiguration of the conventional coordinates of the West (West vs. Rest, Orient vs. Occident). The essays featured in this collection draw upon a wide range of theories from a comparative perspective. Taken together, the collection covers a vast terrain of textual and non-textual sources, including novels, political and poetological programs, video-clips and hypertexts, while exploring the formal-aesthetic representations of the West from interdisciplinary perspectives as diverse as German classicism, (post-)modern Britain, Canada, China, Ireland and the postcolonial world.
9789401210003
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,-1749-1832.
Comparative literature.
Electronic books.
PT2051 .F766 2013
831.6