Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Vision of the Eastern Other in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival
- 2 Mapping the World and the Self: Fortunatus and the Age of Discovery
- 3 Discovering the “Great Orient within Us”: Novalis’s Heinrich von Ofterdingen
- 4 The Oedipal and the Orient in Theodor Fontane’s Effi Briest
- 5 “The Asian Principle” in Thomas Mann’s Der Zauberberg
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Vision of the Eastern Other in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival
- 2 Mapping the World and the Self: Fortunatus and the Age of Discovery
- 3 Discovering the “Great Orient within Us”: Novalis’s Heinrich von Ofterdingen
- 4 The Oedipal and the Orient in Theodor Fontane’s Effi Briest
- 5 “The Asian Principle” in Thomas Mann’s Der Zauberberg
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
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- Chapter
- Information
- Orienting the SelfThe German Literary Encounter with the Eastern Other, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2014