Tracing global democracy literature, theory, and the politics of trauma / by Vladimir Biti.
| Author/creator | Biti, Vladimir, 1952- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2016. |
| Description | ix, 394 pages : 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Culture & conflict ; volume 7 |
| Contents | Introduction -- Toward a global community: the emergence of the modern idea of literature. The divided legacy of the Republic of Letters: emancipation and trauma -- The fissured identity of literature: national universalism and/or cosmopolitan nationalism -- The Janus face of literary bildung: education and/or self-formation? -- Who voices universal history? Kant's "Mankind" and/or Herder's "Nature" -- Who worlds the literature? Goethe's weltliteratur and globalization -- An observer under observation: the cosmopolitan legacy of modern theory. Interiorizing the exteriority: the cosmopolitan authorization of the theoretical truth -- The narrative of permanent displacement: early German romanticism and its theoretical afterlife -- The oppositional literary transcendental: the Russian formalist rewriting of early romanticist cosmopolitanism -- The all-devouring modern mind: Bakhtin's cosmopolitan self -- Countering the empirical evidence: from immigrant cosmopolitanism to a cosmopolitanism of the disregarded -- Political and/or literary community: from class to messianic cosmopolitanism -- Literature as deterritorialization: new vistas for democracy? -- Epilogue. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016000373 |
| ISBN | 9783110577822 (paperback ; acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 9783110455755 (alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |