22.3317, Books: Linguistics & Literature/Sociolinguistics: Roberts

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Date: 18-Aug-2011
From: Laura Bally [publicity at peterlang.com]
Subject: Literary Nationalism in German and Japanese Germanistik: Roberts

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Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 20:19:57
From: Laura Bally [publicity at peterlang.com]
Subject: Literary Nationalism in German and Japanese Germanistik: Roberts

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Title: Literary Nationalism in German and Japanese Germanistik 
Series Title: Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics - Volume 78  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
	   http://www.peterlang.com

Book URL: http://www.peterlang.com/?310934 

Author: Lee M. Roberts

Hardback: ISBN:  9781433109348 Pages: 243 Price: U.S. $ 85.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9781433109348 Pages: 243 Price: U.K. £ 52.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781433109348 Pages: 243 Price: Europe EURO 57.30 Comment: for Germany EURO 61.30, for Austria EURO 63.00 (incl. VAT)

Abstract:

Literary Nationalism in German and Japanese Germanistik traces the 
convergence of German and Japanese metaphors for national literary spirit 
through the academic study of the German language and literature in 
Germanistik. Early notions of a spiritual link to the national literary tradition 
allowed speakers of German to imagine their unity before the existence of the 
modern German state, but the concept for spirit also gained various nuances 
in the works of such writers as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the Brothers 
Grimm, E.T.A. Hoffmann, and Hermann Hesse. Moreover, throughout the 
nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, scholars and thinkers 
increasingly equated literary spirit with the psychology of the German nation. 
Against the background of these developments, the slogans of university 
students who burned books of so-called un-German spirit in 1933 gained a 
particularly ominous meaning. Interestingly, for Japanese contemplating 
German literature in the late nineteenth century, the native idea of national 
literary spirit was one of many concepts that differed from their German 
counterparts. However, skilled writers and translators like Mori Ogai invested 
old words with new meanings, and by the 1930s Japanese scholars of 
Germanistik had not only documented the discourse on German national 
literary spirit but also deemed it synonymous with the spirit of Japan's own 
tradition. 

The Author: Lee M. Roberts is Assistant Professor of German Language and 
Literature at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. He received 
his Ph.D. in German from the University of California, Berkeley. His research 
interests include East-West literary relations, the literature of fascism, and 
comparative Germanistik. He edited the volume of essays Germany and the 
Imagined East (2005). 

Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): German (deu)
                     Japanese (jpn)

Written In: English  (eng)

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