Germany and the imagined East [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Lee M. Roberts

• Pubblicazione: Newcastle, U.K., : Cambridge Scholars Press, 2005; Newcastle, U.K. : , : Cambridge Scholars Press, , 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (219 p.)
• Disciplina: 327.0943
• Soggetto topico: German literature - 19th century - History and criticism; German literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Orientalism in literature
• Soggetto geografico: Europe, Eastern In literature; Middle East In literature; East Asia In literature
• Altri autori: RobertsLee M
• Note generali: Papers presented at the 12th annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference held Mar. 13-14, 2004, at the University of California, Berkeley.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF IMAGES; PREFACE; PART I; DIS-MEMBERING AND RE-MEMBERING THE GDR; MAKING NEW ENEMIES; LIEGT BOHMEN NOCH AM MEER?; THE SECRETS OF THE KAZABAIKA; PART II; HABERMAS AND HIS YUGOSLAVIA; IMAGINING THE EAST; INVITING BARBARISM; PART III; ORIENTALISM, EXPRESSIONISM, IMPERIALISM; NIETZSCHE'S ZARATHUSTRA; "CROUCHING TIGER" AND HIDDEN DESIRES; PART IV; "SO THAT ASIA CAN BECOME GREAT""; THE ORIENTALIST REFLECTION; BRECHT AND THE CHINESE EXPERIMENT IN THEATER; IMAGINARY TERRAIN OF GERMAN ORIENTALISM
• Sommario/riassunto: German-speaking Europe is an array of images that have emerged from varied discourses about itself and its neighbors, and "Germany and the Imagined East" revolves around the exchange of views on and in the vast construct called "the East." The world has been divided conceptually in countless ways, but the works in this volume treat aspects of Germany as both part of and also separate from any perception of an eastern border. From the former German Democratic Republic,"East Germany," to Österr...
• Titolo autorizzato: Germany and the imagined East
• ISBN: 1-904303-61-7; 9786612035777; 1-282-03577-0; 1-4438-0419-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786251003321
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