Imagology of Germany in American Culture Chapter 10: Atlantic Double-Cross – Reciprocity of Influence: Germany as an Alternative Model in the Search for an American National Identity, 1830 to 1930Ĭhapter 11: Southern Alumni of German Universities. Images of Europe and Its Nations Chapter 5: Johannes Kepler, James Howell, and Thomas Lansius: The Competition between European Nations as a Literary Theme in the 17th CenturyĬhapter 6: Transatlantic Differences: (Mis)Perceptions in Diachronic PerspectiveĬhapter 7: Sketches of a Traveler: Observations on a Dominant Theme in Washington Irving’s WorkĬhapter 8: Remarks on the Tradition and Function of Heterostereotypes in North American Fiction between 19Ĭhapter 9: A Separate Identity Asserted: Agrarian Affinities with European Culture Imagology and the Theory of Climate Chapter 2: The Theory of Climate and the Tableau of NationalitiesĬhapter 3: Foreign Faces: Physiognomy and the Theory of ClimateĬhapter 4: The Theory of Climate in North American Texts since 1776 National Stereotypes in Literature in the English Language: A Review of Research Chapter 1: National Stereotypes in Literature in the English Language: A Review of Research ISBN: 978-9-9 E-Book ISBN: 978-9-2 ©Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam - New York, NY 2010 Printed in the NetherlandsĪcknowledgements Introduction: A Personal Memoir: Towards the Study of Imagology The paper on which this book is printed meets the requirements of “ISO 9706:1994, Information and documentation - Paper for documents Requirements for permanence”. The series Studia Imagologica, which will accommodate scholarly monographs in English, French or German, provides a forum for this literary-historical specialism.Ĭover Image: Völkertafel (Tableau of Nationalities), The Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art. Increasingly, the attitudes, stereotypes and prejudices which govern literary activity and international relations are perceived in their full importance their nature as textual (frequently literary) constructs is more clearly apprehended and the necessity for a textual and historical analysis of their typology, their discursive expression and dissemination, is being recognized by historians and literary scholars. In recent years, the shape both of literary studies and of international relations (in the political as well as the cultural sphere) has taken a turn which makes imagology more topical and urgent than before. Imagology, the study of cross-national perceptions and imagesĪs expressed in literary discourse, has for many decades been one of the more challenging and promising branches of Comparative Literature. The book is of interest to comparatists, to practitioners of cultural studies and cultural history, to scholars in the fields of ethnic and inter-cultural German studies and especially to Anglicists and AmericanistsĪmsterdam Studies on Cultural Identity 17 Serie editors It analyzes such national images as the hetero-stereotypes of Germans and Austrians in North American texts, and illuminates the depiction of the English abroad, as well as that of the Scots, the Jews and Italians in American literature. The collection of essays, many of which are appearing in English for the first time, examines such phenomena as the mutual perception and misperception of Europeans and (North) Americans and the role of the theory of climate as a justification for stereotyped representations. The book traces the emergence of national and ethnic stereotypes in the early modern age and studies their evolution and multiple functions in a wide range of texts from travelogues and diaries to novels, plays and poetry, produced between the 16th and 20th centuries. E-Book Overview Imagology Revisited brings together in one volume essays written over a forty-year period on the perception and representation of foreign countries and peoples, the "other".
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