Imagology revisited

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Imagology Revisited brings together in one volume essays written over a forty-year period on the perception and representation of foreign countries and peoples, the "other". The book traces the emergence of national and ethnic stereotypes in the early modern age and studies their evolution and multiple functions in a wide range of texts from travelogues and diaries to novels, plays and poetry, produced between the 16th and 20th centuries.

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Full title :Imagology revisited / Waldemar Zacharasiewicz.

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Publication Date:2010

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Rodopi
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:2010

The Physical Object

Description:571 pages ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789042031999, 9042031999, 9042032006, 9789042032002
oclc:ocn733557305
LC Classification:PN56.N19
Dewey Decimal:809.93358

Introduction : a personal memoir : towards the study of imagology -- National stereotypes in literature in the English language : a review of research -- The theory of climate and the tableau of nationalities -- Foreign faces : physiognomy and the theory of climate -- The theory of climate in North American texts since 1776 -- Johannes Kepler, James Howell, and Thomas Lansius : the competition between European nations as a literary theme in the 17th century -- Transatlantic differences : (mis)perceptions in diachronic perspective -- Sketches of a traveler : observations on a dominant theme in Washington Irving's work -- Remarks on the tradition and function of heterostereotypes in North American fiction between 1900 and 1940 -- A separate identity asserted : agrarian affinities with European culture -- Atlantic double-cross : reciprocity of influence : Germany as an alternative model in the search for an American national identity, 1830 to 1930 -- Southern alumni of German universities : fashioning a tradition of excellence -- German ethnicity in the American south and the permeability of ethnic borders -- The rise and the demise of German and hybrid German-English in American (po…

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Beeldvorming Bellettrie Caractéristiques nationales dans la lit… Cross-cultural studies Culturele aspecten Image (Philosophie) -- Études transcult… Image (Philosophy) Image (Philosophy) -- Cross-cultural st… National characteristics in literature National characteristics in literature … Stereotypes (Social psychology) in lite… Stereotypes (Social psychology) in lite… Stéréotypes dans la littérature -- Étud…