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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Title Statements

Full title :Imagology revisited / Waldemar Zacharasiewicz.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2010.

Publication Statements

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

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (571 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789042032002, 9042032006
oclc:ocn696342292
LC Classification:PS159.G3
Dewey Decimal:810.9

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: A Personal Memoir: Towards the Study of Imagology; National Stereotypes in Literature in the English Language: A Review of Research; Imagology and the Theory of Climate; Images of Europe and Its Nations; Imagology of Germany in American Culture; Images of Vienna and Austria in Anglophone Cultures; Images of the English and Scots Abroad; Images of Jews in North American Culture; Images of Italians in Anglophone Cultures; Bibliography; Index.

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Caractéristiques nationales dans la lit… Cross-cultural studies Image (Philosophie) -- Études transcult… Image (Philosophy) Image (Philosophy) -- Cross-cultural st… LITERARY CRITICISM -- American National characteristics in literature Sciences sociales Social sciences Stéréotypes Stereotypes (Social psychology) Stereotyping