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Goethe’S World Literature, Universal Particularism, And European Imperialism, Dongho Cha
Goethe’S World Literature, Universal Particularism, And European Imperialism, Dongho Cha
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
In his article "Goethe's World Literature, Universal Particularism, and European Imperialism" Dongho Cha tracks the ideology in Goethe's concept of "world literature." Early comparatists claim to stand for the universalism of this concept by understanding it to totalize all literatures across linguistic, territorial, and national boundaries and intended to go beyond European nationalism. Cha argues that Goethe's idea of world literature is not a universal category that includes all of the world nliteratures, but a limited category that includes European literatures only and posits that world literature's and comparative literature's universalism is related to nineteenth-century European imperialism. Contrary to the …
Storm Still: Klartext Und Poesie In Peter Handke's "Immer Noch Sturm", Scott Abbott
Storm Still: Klartext Und Poesie In Peter Handke's "Immer Noch Sturm", Scott Abbott
Scott Abbott
In a play about about the Slovenian minority in Austria, Peter Handke dialectically explores the possibilities of language in the contexts of war and peace. Although the play has been attacked as an act of linguistic nationalism, a careful reading of the play finds it one more document in the author's lifelong commitment to laying bare the coercive structures of language.