German literature as world literature
By: edited by Thomas Oliver Beebee
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781623563912; 9781623560539; 9781623561895
Subjects: German literature; Appreciation; History and criticism; Literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-204) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: departures, emanations, intersections; title: 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; title: Daniel Purdy: Goethe, Rémusat and the Chinese novel: translation and the circulation of world literature; title: Ausstrahlungen/emanations. Simona Moti: Between political engagement and political unconscious: Hugo Von Hofmannsthal and the Slavic East; title: Kathleen l. Komar: Rainer Maria Rilke: German speaker, world author; title: Martina Kolb: Bertolt Brecht homme du monde: exile, Verfremdung, and Weltliteratur; title: David Kim: Militant melancholia, or remembering historical traumas: W. G. Sebald's Die Ringe des Saturn; title: Schnittmengen/intersections. Thomas O. Beebee: From Nobel to nothingness: the negative monumentality of Rudolf C. Eucken and Paul Heyse; title: Paul Nissler: A short survey of the creation and development of common German-Latin American space: Humboldt, emigration, exile and contemporary interaction; title: Elke Sturm-Trigonakis: Contemporary German-based hybrid texts as a new world literature.