Title From popular Goethe to global pop : the idea of the West between memory and (dis)empowerment / with a foreword by Aleida Assmann ; edited by Ines Detmers and Birte Heidemann.

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Description	1 online resource (257 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
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Series	Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 0929-6999 ; 166
	Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 166. 0929-6999
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.-9 English, 3 German contributions.
Summary	This essay collection embarks on a historical voyage into the idea of the West, while contextualising its relevance to the contemporary discourses on cultural difference. Although the idea of the West predates both colonial and Orientalist projects, it has been radically reshaped by the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the end of the Cold War and the 9/11 attacks. In the wake of these developments, this collection attends to the nebulous paradigm shifts that account for a reconfiguration of the conventional coordinates of the West (West vs. Rest, Orient vs. Occident). The essays featured in th.
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Subject	European literature -- History and criticism.
	European literature.
	Memory in literature.
	Memory in literature.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form:	Print version: From popular Goethe to global pop 9789042037496 (OCoLC)862072838
ISBN	9789401210003 (electronic book)
	9401210004 (electronic book)
	9789042037496
	9042037490