Orienting the self
the German literary encounter with the Eastern other
Includes bibliographical references and index.. - The vision of the Eastern other in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival -- Mapping the world and the self: Fortunatus and the age of discovery -- Discovering the "great orient within us": Novalis's...
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Includes bibliographical references and index.. - The vision of the Eastern other in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival -- Mapping the world and the self: Fortunatus and the age of discovery -- Discovering the "great orient within us": Novalis's Heinrich von Ofterdingen and the romantic vision of the East -- The oedipal and the orient in Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest -- "The Asian principle" in Thomas Mann's Der Zauberberg -- Conclusion.
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Deploying Orientalism in culture and history
from Germany to Central and Eastern Europe