Orienting the self : the German literary encounter with the Eastern other /
Prager, Debra N.,1961-author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-309) and index.
The vision of the Eastern other in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival -- Mapping the world and the self: Fortunatus and the age of discovery -- Discovering the "Great Orient within Us": Novalis's Heinrich von Ofterdingen and the romantic vision of the East -- The Oedipal and the Orient in Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest -- "The Asian principle" in Thomas Mann's Der Zauberberg -- Conclusion.
German literature
Orientalism in literature.
German literature
Self in literature.
Subjectivity in literature.
Outsiders in literature.