Screen LibraryChinesia : the European construction of China in the literature of the 17th and 18th centuries /
Main description: Our perception of the Others is based on our conception of ourselves. In theory the Others should be different. If necessary, we alter their images to accommodate the apperception of ourselves. Thus Chinesia, an amalgamation of facts and fiction, was created. In order to avoid prev...
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Max Niemeyer Verlaga,
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| Publisher Address: | Tübingen : |
| Publication Dates: |
2010. ©1998 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Communicatio ;
volume 16 |
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Main description: Our perception of the Others is based on our conception of ourselves. In theory the Others should be different. If necessary, we alter their images to accommodate the apperception of ourselves. Thus Chinesia, an amalgamation of facts and fiction, was created. In order to avoid previous repetition of stereotypes and prejudices, the present study re-examines the parameters which created Chinesia and traces its development to the end of the 18th century. The literary study begins with the analysis of European dramatization of the Manchu Conquest of China and its subsequent fictional Christianization. Then the Jesuit plays with Chinese themes are discussed, for the first time in literary history. Also analyzed is the reception of the Chinese Orphan motive in European literature which was the turning point in downgrading China, and subsequently Montesquieu's impact on Albrecht von Haller's novel "Usong" is examined. Thereafter, the study scrutinizes the contradictory positions of Herder and von Seckendorff (or Goethe, for that matter) in Weimar. The book concludes with a concise analysis of the 'eschatological sinism' of Hegel, Marx and Weber to indicate the development of the later centuries. Main description: Wir nehmen unsere Umwelt, insbesondere alles Fremde, durch einen Perzeptionsrahmen wahr, der die realen Verh ltnisse nach unseren Bed rfnissen neu ordnet. Die vorliegende Arbeit analysiert ein Musterbeispiel dieses Ph nomens: das europ ische China-Konstrukt im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert. Sie besch ftigt sich mit den volumin sen Berichten der Seefahrer und Jesuiten, die zuerst das Chinabild im neuzeitlichen Europa pr gten. Dieses wurde dann von den europ ischen Geschichtsphilosophen graduell umgewertet. Dagegen schufen die literarischen Schriftsteller ihr eigenes und variables China: Chinesien. Thematisch gruppiert werden u.a. die Werke Goethes, Voltaires, Metastasios', Hallers, Montesquieus, Arthur Murphys, von Seckendorffs, Vondels, Elkanah Settles und Herders untersucht. Ein getrenntes Kapitel behandelt die Jesuitendramen ber China. Zum Schlu wird der eschatologische "Sinismus" Hegels, Marx' und Webers analysiert, um die Tendenzen des 19. Jahrhunderts aufzuzeigen. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (v, 144 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [137]-144). |
| ISBN: | 9783110914894 |
| Index Number: | PN741 |
| CLC: | I500.64 |