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From popular Goethe to global pop : the idea of the West between memory and (dis)empowerment / with a foreword by Aleida Assmann ; edited by Ines Detmers and Birte Heidemann

Published
Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2013.
Physical Description
257 pages ; 22 cm.
Additional Creators
Detmers, Ines and Heidemann, Birte

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Language Note
Contributions in English and German.
Contents
Einleitung : Annäherungen an den Westen : Projekte, Praktiken, Prozesse / Ines Detmers and Birte Heidemann -- Der Orient als Experimentierfeld : Goethes Divan und der Aneignungsprozess kolonialen Wissens / Anil Bhatti -- Goethe als Korrektiv : Klassiker-Entwürfe Benedetto Croces und José Ortega y Gassets / Katrin Schmeissner -- 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 / Kathleen Starck -- The end of the West in contemporary anglophone fiction / Oliver Lindner -- Im Zeichen des Wolfs : die Schriftsteller Jiang Rong und Lu Xun als Grenzgänger zwischen chinesischer Tradition und westlicher Moderne / Michael Ostheimer -- Regional (re)conceptions of the Irish West / Susan Nitzsche -- Pulp, sci-fi and the politics of other fictions : face to face with Mohsin Hamid / Malreddy Pavan Kumar -- Embodiments of the West : texture and textuality of the symbolic body in Mohsin Hamid's The reluctant fundamentalist / Birte Heidemann -- Contradictions of human agency from Victorian cosmopolitanism to postmodern eclecticism / Niven Kumar & Lucyna Swiatek -- 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 / Denis Simon -- 'Look West in anger' : excklusive Emotopien in Christian Krachts 1979 und Salman Rushdies Fury : ein Beitrag zur Affektpoetik des neo-dekadenten Romans / Ines Detmers -- Towards a world revolution? : forging a transnational emancipation narrative from Tahrir Square to Wall Streeet / Ana Sobral.
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ISBN
9789042037496 (pbk.)
9042037490 (pbk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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