German Literature As World Literature.

Intro -- Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Text -- Introduction: Departures, Emanations, Intersections -- What does it mean to study world literature? -- World literature as German literature -- The world literature connection -- Part 1: Goethe's Weltliteratur/World Literature -- 1 Reading Goethe's Elective Affinities (Die Wahlverwandtschaften) through Cao Xueqin's The Story of the Stone (Hong Lou Meng): Immanent Divinity, Vegetative Femininity, and the Mood of Transience -- Immanent divinity -- Vegetative femininity -- Mood of transience -- Stimmung and jing jie -- 2 Goethe, Rémusat, and the Chinese Novel: Translation and the Circulation of World Literature -- Goethe's Chinese novel -- Defining the world in literature -- World literature and the circulation of commodities -- Goethe's Chinese education -- Rémusat's preface as a resource for Goethe -- Part 2: Ausstrahlungen/Emanations -- 3 Between Political Engagement and Political Unconscious: Hugo von Hofmannsthal and the Slavic East -- Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) -- Postcolonial Austria -- Reitergeschichte -- Conclusion -- 4 Rainer Maria Rilke: German Speaker, World Author -- Rilke as globally influential -- What makes Rilke so globally appealing? -- 5 Bertolt Brecht-Homme du Monde: Exile -- Brecht as world littérateur -- World literature as Verfremdung -- 6 Militant Melancholia, or Remembering Historical Traumas: W. G. Sebald's -- Memories and world citizenship -- A militant elegist? -- Militant melancholia -- The potential for telling the truth -- Part 3: Schnittmengen/Intersections -- 7 From Nobel to Nothingness: The Negative Monumentality of Rudolf C. Eucken and Paul Heyse -- Rudolf Eucken -- Paul Heyse -- Conclusion.

8 A Short Survey of the Creation and Development of Common German Latin American Space: Humboldt, Emigration, Exile, and Contemporary Interactions -- The first moment: Humboldt and his extensions -- Authorial emigration -- The second moment-immigration and integration -- Third moment-increased mobility and expanded media -- 9 Contemporary German-Based Hybrid Texts as a New World Literature -- Defining German literature today -- Negotiating the global: The new WL as an approach toc ontemporary hybrid texts -- Exploring and colonizing in contemporary literature in German -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

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