German literature as world literature. (2014 copyright 2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Thomas Oliver Beebee.
• Editors: Beebee, Thomas O
• Contents: Introduction: departures, emanations, intersections -- Goethe's Weltliteratur/world literature. Chunjie Zhang: Reading Goethe's elective affinities (Die Wahlverwandtschaften) through The story of the stone (Hong Lou Meng): immanent divinity, vegetative femininity, and the mood of transience -- Daniel Purdy: Goethe, Rémusat and the Chinese novel: translation and the circulation of world literature -- Ausstrahlungen/emanations. Simona Moti: Between political engagement and political unconscious: Hugo Von Hofmannsthal and the Slavic East -- Kathleen l. Komar: Rainer Maria Rilke: German speaker, world author -- Martina Kolb: Bertolt Brecht homme du monde: exile, Verfremdung, and Weltliteratur -- David Kim: Militant melancholia, or remembering historical traumas: W. G. Sebald's Die Ringe des Saturn -- Schnittmengen/intersections. Thomas O. Beebee: From Nobel to nothingness: the negative monumentality of Rudolf C. Eucken and Paul Heyse -- Paul Nissler: A short survey of the creation and development of common German-Latin American space: Humboldt, emigration, exile and contemporary interaction -- Elke Sturm-Trigonakis: Contemporary German-based hybrid texts as a new world literature.
• Publisher Details: New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (256 pages)
• Subjects: 830.9; Literary Criticism -- European -- German; German literature -- Appreciation; German literature -- History and criticism; Literature -- History and criticism; Literary studies: general
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781623560539; 1623560535
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