Transatlantic Echoes: Alexander Von Humboldt in World Literature

 
9780857452658: Transatlantic Echoes: Alexander Von Humboldt in World Literature
ISBN 10: 0857452657 ISBN 13: 9780857452658
Verlag: BERGHAHN BOOKS INC, 2012

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<p>Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) was a world traveler, bestselling writer, and versatile researcher, a European salon sensation, and global celebrity. Yet the enormous literary echo he generated has remained largely unexplored. Humboldt inspired generations of authors, from Goethe and Byron to Enzensberger and García Márquez, to reflect on cultural difference, colonial ideology, and the relation between aesthetics and science. This collection of one-hundred texts features tales of adventure, travel reports, novellas, memoirs, letters, poetry, drama, screenplays, and even comics—many for the first time in English. The selection covers the foundational myths and magical realism of Latin America, the intellectual independence of Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, and Whitman in the United States, discourses in Imperial, Weimar, Nazi, East, and West Germany, as well as recent films and fiction. This documented source book addresses scholars in cultural and postcolonial studies as well as readers in history and comparative literature.</p>

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

<p><strong>Oliver Lubrich </strong>is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Universität Bern in Switzerland. He is the author of <em>Shakespeare's Self-Deconstruction </em>(2001) and <em>Post-Colonial Poetics </em>(2004, 2009) and the editor of <em>Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945 </em>(2010). He has edited or co-edited Alexander von Humboldt's <em>Central Asia </em>(2009), <em>Kosmos </em>(2004), and the first German version of <em>Vues des Cordillères </em>(2004), the <em>Chimborazo Diary </em>(2006) as well as the ethnographic and political essays (2009, 2010).</p> <p><strong>Rex Clark </strong>is a Lecturer in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. He studied at the Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, researching the history of travel guides and travel discourse in the eighteenth century and focusing on Friedrich Nicolai, Georg Forster, and Alexander von Humboldt. He has published articles on digital media, postcolonial travel theory, and the reception of Alexander von Humboldt.</p>

Rex Clark is a Lecturer in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. He studied at the Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Illinois in Urbana, researching the history of travel guides and travel discourse in the eighteenth century and focusing on Friedrich Nicolai, Georg Forster, and Alexander von Humboldt. He has published articles on digital media, postcolonial travel theory, and the reception of Alexander von Humboldt.

Oliver Lubrich is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Universität Bern in Switzerland. Previously, he was Junior Professor of Rhetoric at the Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature and the Cluster of Excellence "Languages of Emotion" at the Freie Universität Berlin. He (co-)edited Alexander von Humboldt's Kosmos and the first German publication of Vues des Cordillères (2004), the Chimborazo Diary (2006), the ethnographic and political essays as well as Central Asia (2009). Lubrich's Travels in the Reich, 1933–45 was published by the University of Chicago Press (2010).

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Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was a world traveler, bestselling writer, and versatile researcher, a European salon sensation and global celebrity. Yet the enormous literary echo he generated has remained largely unexplored. Humboldt inspired generations of authors, from Goethe and Byron to Enzensberger and García Márquez, to reflect on cultural difference, colonial ideology, and the relation between aesthetics and science. This collection of one-hundred texts features tales of adventure, travel reports, novellas, memoirs, letters, poetry, drama, screenplays, and even comics—many for the first time in English. The selection covers the foundational myths and magical realism of Latin America, the intellectual independence of Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, and Whitman in the United States, discourses in Imperial, Weimar, Nazi, East and West Germany, as well as recent films and fiction. This documented source book addresses scholars in cultural and postcolonial studies as well as readers in history and comparative literature.

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Verlag
BERGHAHN BOOKS INC
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0857452657
ISBN 13 
9780857452658
Einband
Bibliothekseinband
Anzahl der Seiten
480
Herausgeber
Clark Rex, Lubrich Oliver
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