Exotic spaces in German modernism

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Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei demonstrates that the exotic, as reflected in major works of German literature and in the philosophy and art that inspires it, provokes central questions about the modern self and the spaces it inhabits.

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Full title :Exotic spaces in German modernism / Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei.

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Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

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Description:1 online resource (x, 282 pages)

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ISBN:9780191729362, 0191729361, 9780191619205, 0191619205
oclc:ocn775504986
LC Classification:PT405
Dewey Decimal:830.900912

Cover; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction: The 'Exotic' and the Geographical Imagination in Modern German Literature; The Relational and Mobile Concept of the Exotic; Orientalism, German Literature, and the Geographical Imagination; 1. Fernweh, Travel, and the Re-enchantment of the World in Hofmannsthal, Dauthendey, and Hesse; Atmosphere and Exotic Spaces in Hofmannsthal's Travel Writings; Fernweh, Heimweh, and the Critique of Modernity: Die Briefe des Zurückgekehrten; Distance, the Exotic, and Bildung: The Unfinished Novel Andreas

Vastness, the Labyrinthine, the Unreachable: Travel Writings in Northern AfricaThe Re-enchantment of the World in Dauthendey's Asia; Enchantment as Critical Distance from Modern Europe; Enchantment and Disillusionment in Dauthendey and in Hesse's Aus Indien; Conclusion; 2. Infectious-Erotic Topographies: Mann's Der Tod in Venedig and Der Zauberberg and Zweig's Der Amokläufer; Fragile Boundaries: Three Infectious-Erotic Topographies; The Infectious-Erotic in Der Tod in Venedig; Sexuality, Illness, and Colonial Aggression in Der Amokläufer; Constructions of Exotic Space in Der Zauberberg

Conclusion3. An Intimate Elsewhere: Imagination of Distance and…

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Altérité dans la littérature American literature Criticism, interpretation, etc English Foreign countries in literature German literature German literature -- History and critic… Germanic Literature Germany Languages & Literatures LITERARY CRITICISM -- European Littérature allemande -- Histoire et cr… Modernism (Literature) Modernism (Literature) -- Germany Modernisme (Littérature) -- Allemagne Moi (Philosophie) dans la littérature Other (Philosophy) in literature Pays étrangers dans la littérature Self (Philosophy) in literature