Chinese Sympathies : Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe /

"Chinese Sympathies analyzes key German literary texts by placing scholarship on early modern Chinese empires and missionaries in conjunction with German media theory from the last twenty-five years (most notably, Friedrich Kittler). Daniel Leonhard Purdy traces a connection from Baroque-era mi...

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1. Verfasser: Purdy, Daniel L. (Verfasst von)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca [New York] Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2021.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction: sympathy and orientalism
  • Marco Polo's fabulous imperial connections
  • Jesuit channels between Europe and Asia
  • The genealogy of compassionate reading
  • News of the Ming dynasty's collapse
  • Vondel's tragic Chinese emperor
  • Wieland's secret history of cosmopolitanism
  • Adam Smith and the Chinese earthquake
  • Goethe reads the Jesuits
  • Weimar pairings: idealism and Buddhism, Kant and the Jesuits
  • World literature and Goethe's Chinese poetry