East West Mimesis - Auerbach in Turkey

Zusatztext " East West Mimesis offers a revelatory reinterpretation of comparative literature's founding texts, and a first-rate piece of detective work, showing the scholarly world something it would otherwise never know: how much the scale of thinking encouraged by comparative literature is the accidental byproduct of Turkish attempts to grasp the West as a totality." Informationen zum Autor Kader Konuk is Associate Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. Klappentext "East-West Mimesis" follows the plight of German-Jewish humanists who escaped Nazi persecution by seeking exile in a Muslim-dominated society. Zusammenfassung East-West Mimesis follows the plight of German-Jewish humanists who escaped Nazi persecution by seeking exile in a Muslim-dominated society.

Product details

• Authors: Kader Konuk, Kader/ Holbrook Konuk
• Assisted by: Victoria Holbrook (Translation)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.09.2010
• EAN: 9780804769747
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-6974-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies