Friedrich Rosen : Orientalist Scholarship and International Politics
Amir Theilhaber;Amir Theilhaber
The German lacuna in Edward Said's'Orientalism'has produced varied studies of German c...
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Friedrich Rosen : Orientalist Scholarship and International Politics
2020
The German lacuna in Edward Said's'Orientalism'has produced varied studies of German cultural and academic Orientalisms. So far the domains of German politics and scholarship have not been conflated to probe the central power/knowledge nexus of Said's argument. Seeking to fill this gap, the diplomatic career and scholarly-literary productions of the centrally placed Friedrich Rosen serve as a focal point to investigate how politics influenced knowledge generated about the “Orient” and charts the roles knowledge played in political decision-making regarding extra-European regions. This is pursued through analyses of Germans in British imperialist contexts, cultures of lowly diplomatic encounters in Middle Eastern cities, Persian poetry in translation, prestigious Orientalist congresses in northern climes, leveraging knowledge in high-stakes diplomatic encounters, and the making of Germany's Islam policy up to the Great War. Politics drew on bodies of knowledge and could promote or hinder scholarship. Yet, scholars never systemically followed empire in its tracks but sought their own paths to cognition. On their own terms or influenced by “Oriental” savants they aligned with politics or challenged claims to conquest and rule.
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Reading the Book of the World: Epic Representation in the Age of Our Geophysical Agency.
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Novel: A Forum on Fiction; May2016, Vol. 49 Issue 1, p95-114, 20p
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BOES, TOBIAS
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Novel: A Forum on Fiction; May2016, Vol. 49 Issue 1, p95-114, 20p
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The article discusses the epic representation in the age of geophysical agency, focusi...
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Reading the Book of the World: Epic Representation in the Age of Our Geophysical Agency.
Novel: A Forum on Fiction; May2016, Vol. 49 Issue 1, p95-114, 20p
The article discusses the epic representation in the age of geophysical agency, focusing on the foundation of modern novel theory that starts with a praise of astrology. Topics mentioned include the book "The Theory of the Novel: A Historico-Philosophical Essay on the Forms of Great Epic Literature," by Georg Lukács, his adherence to transcendental idealism and his pessimistic assessment of modernity, and the fundamental ontology of philosopher Martin Heidegger.
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THEORY of the Novel: A Historico-Philosophical Essay on the Forms of Great Epic Literature, The (Book) - LUKACS, Gyorgy, 1885-1971 - HEIDEGGER, Martin, 1889-1976 - GEOPHYSICS - EPIC literature - TRANSCENDENTALISM (Philosophy) - IDEALISM - MODERNITYContent provider:
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Novel, Organism, Form: Bio-Aesthetics in Hegel and Thomas Mann.
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Representations; Fall2023, Vol. 164 Issue 1, p80-114, 35p
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SUTHER, JENSEN
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Representations; Fall2023, Vol. 164 Issue 1, p80-114, 35p
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This essay intervenes in the contemporary debate surrounding the Bildungsroman and its...
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Novel, Organism, Form: Bio-Aesthetics in Hegel and Thomas Mann.
Representations; Fall2023, Vol. 164 Issue 1, p80-114, 35p
This essay intervenes in the contemporary debate surrounding the Bildungsroman and its roots in German Idealism through a new reading of the idea of "life" in two major modern texts: G. W. F. Hegel's Lectures on Fine Art and the famous "Research" chapter of Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain. I establish three key points: 1) Hegel pioneers a bio-aesthetics that grasps the work of art as a distinctly social and historical, reflective manifestation of organic life; 2) Mann's novel achieves a kind of selfconscious knowledge of the Bildungsroman in particular as such a manifestation; and 3) Karl Marx's analysis of the alienation of humanity from its "species-being" under capitalism accounts for the opposition between nature and culture, animality and rationality, that drives Mann's modernist experiment with genre: his innovation of what I call "the novel of deformation.". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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MANN, Thomas, 1875-1955 - HEGEL, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831 - BILDUNGSROMANS - GERMAN idealism - HUMANITYContent provider:
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The Drama of Peripheralized Bildung: An Irish Genre Study.
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New Literary History; Spring2017, Vol. 48 Issue 2, p337-362, 26p
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Townsend, Sarah L.
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New Literary History; Spring2017, Vol. 48 Issue 2, p337-362, 26p
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The Drama of Peripheralized Bildung: An Irish Genre Study.
New Literary History; Spring2017, Vol. 48 Issue 2, p337-362, 26p
The article seeks to expand the methodological framework for analyzing the global circulation of literary genres by tracing lines of influence between the Bildungsroman and dramatic narratives of Bildung. It argues that the case study of modern Irish literature often dispenses with traditional guarantors of Bildung unavailable to Ireland's youth, like ample time and freedom of movement, forwarding instead narratives of rapid development that unfold on the stage rather than in novel form.
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LITERARY form - BILDUNGSROMANS - FICTION - IRISH literature - FREEDOM of movementContent provider:
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Toward a History and Theory of the Socialist Bildungsroman .
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Novel: A Forum on Fiction; Aug2015, Vol. 48 Issue 2, p167-189, 23p
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KOHLMANN, BENJAMIN
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Novel: A Forum on Fiction; Aug2015, Vol. 48 Issue 2, p167-189, 23p
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Toward a History and Theory of the Socialist Bildungsroman .
Novel: A Forum on Fiction; Aug2015, Vol. 48 Issue 2, p167-189, 23p
The article explores the socialist bildungsroman as a subgenre of the 20th century novel that is focused on the history of socialism and the problematic of a genuinely revolutionary temporality. Topics include the subgenre's exploration of the fraught relationship between socialism's internationalist aspirations and the resurgence of the nation and nationalism at midcentury, the bildungsromane that covers works such as Fyodor Gladkov's "Cement" and Jean-Paul Sartre's "The Roads to Freedom."
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GLADKOV, Fedor, 1883-1958 - CEMENT (Book) - SARTRE, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980 - ROADS to Freedom (Book) - BILDUNGSROMANS - SOCIALISM - INTERNATIONALISTSContent provider:
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Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction : Environment and Affect.
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Modern Fiction Studies; Fall2015, Vol. 61 Issue 3, p539-541, 3p
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CARRALERO, PAMELA
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Modern Fiction Studies; Fall2015, Vol. 61 Issue 3, p539-541, 3p
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Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction : Environment and Affect.
Modern Fiction Studies; Fall2015, Vol. 61 Issue 3, p539-541, 3p
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ECOSICKNESS in Contemporary US Fiction: Environment & Affect (Book) - HOUSER, Heather - LITERARY criticism - NONFICTIONContent provider:
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Who Cares About Society?: Sorge and Reification in Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre.
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Colloquia Germanica; 2014, Vol. 47 Issue 3, p243-262, 20p
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Wetters, Kirk
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Colloquia Germanica; 2014, Vol. 47 Issue 3, p243-262, 20p
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Georg Lukács developed the concept of “reification" to characterize the ossification o...
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Who Cares About Society?: Sorge and Reification in Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre.
Colloquia Germanica; 2014, Vol. 47 Issue 3, p243-262, 20p
Georg Lukács developed the concept of “reification" to characterize the ossification of social relations due to commodification and exchange under advanced capitalism. This claim is predicated on the idea that social relations and object relations can be structured in various ways. Throughout Lukács's career, Goethe's Wilhelm Meister is invoked to illustrate the possibility of non-reified social integration. Goethe's novel stands for “affirmative reification" and non-reified symbolic space. This essay argues on the basis of Goethe's distinction between symbol and allegory that Goethe's novel is fundamentally more ambivalent and gothic than Lukács admits, especially in its rendering of the material mediation of “human relations" in a world defined by the entanglement of objects, things, images, language and memory. In Goethe's novel, human societies are essentially transitory, no matter how much care and aesthetic cultivation are invested in their stability and continuity. This does not refute Lukács's conception, but finds in Goethe a theoretical supplement to it, which is able to undercut its implicit idealization of pre- or un-reified relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 - POSTMODERNISM (Literature) - REIFICATION - PHILOSOPHY - METAPHORContent provider:
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Idylls of the Buddh': Buddhist Modernism and Victorian Poetics in Colonial Ceylon.
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PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America; May2016, Vol. 131 Issue 3, p668-685, 18p
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LECOURT, SEBASTIAN
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PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America; May2016, Vol. 131 Issue 3, p668-685, 18p
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This essay explores how Edwin Arnold's epic poem The Light of Asia (1879) popularized ...
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Idylls of the Buddh': Buddhist Modernism and Victorian Poetics in Colonial Ceylon.
PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America; May2016, Vol. 131 Issue 3, p668-685, 18p
This essay explores how Edwin Arnold's epic poem The Light of Asia (1879) popularized a formal analogy between Buddhism and Christianity. The poem was based on a series of missionary texts that had reshaped the Buddha's career into a close approximation of Jesus's in order to frame Buddhism as a fit object of Protestant conversion. Early anglophone readers in Sri Lanka, however, took it as evidence of Buddhism's equal stature and thus helped make The Light of Asia an international best seller and a touchstone for popular Buddhist nationalisms in the twentieth century. In this way Arnold's poem allows us to develop a more complex sense both of how literary forms globalize--how a literary construct can take on global purchase precisely because readers disagree over its meaning--and of the powerful role that specific literary media play in influencing these different interpretations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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LIGHT of Asia, The (Poem) - ARNOLD, Edwin, Sir, 1832-1904 - EPIC poetry - LITERARY criticism - BUDDHISM in literature - CHRISTIANITY in literatureContent provider:
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Moby Word Lists.
Ward, Grady
Presents the complete text of "Moby Word Lists" by Ward, Grady.
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Moby Word Lists.
Moby Word Lists; 3/1/2006, p1, 999p
Presents the complete text of "Moby Word Lists" by Ward, Grady.
