German literature as world literature /

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Group Author: Beebee, Thomas O. (Editor)
Published: Bloomsbury,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: 2014.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: x, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-204) and index.
ISBN: 9781623563912 (hardback) :
1623563917 (hardback)
Index Number: PT115
CLC: I516.06
Call Number: I516.06/G373
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, Raemusat 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.