Orienting the Self

Auteur

Debra N. Prager

Texte du rabat

Follows the evolution of the Orient as a positive literary device in German literature and demonstrates how it was used to explore subjectivity and the possibility of wholeness.

Contenu

Introduction 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 The Oedipal and the Orient in Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest "The Asian Principle" in Thomas Mann's Der Zauberberg Conclusion Bibliography Index