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Space can best be defined not by looking at borders and territories but, rather, by focussing on movements of crossing and re-crossing. Today, the horizons of traditional Area Studies have…
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Ottmar Ette
With its new subtitle, Romance Literatures of the World, the book series mimesis presents an innovative and integral understanding of the Romance world and Romance Studies from the perspective of…
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In this volume, Ottmar Ette unfolds a theory and practice of the Literatures of the World from a fractal and multi-perspective point of view.
Dieser Band entfaltet eine Theorie und Praxis der Literaturen der Welt ausgehend von Erich Auerbachs Auseinandersetzung mit dem von Goethe gepraegten Weltliteratur-Konzept.
Preussen als Nationalstaat, als Kulturstaat, als Militarmacht: Jenseits dieser eindimensionalen Vorstellungen entfaltet das neue Buch von Ottmar Ette das Bild eines vielperspektivischen Preussen. Von Anton Wilhelm Amo, der sich als…
Die Vorlesung prasentiert im UEberblick die Romanischen Literaturen der Welt auf ihrem Weg von den historischen Avantgarden zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts bis zu den Literaturen nach der Postmoderne zu…
Literature on the Move formulates a new aesthetics for the altered conditions and challenges of the new century. The point of departure for examining a bordercrossing literature on the move…
The lecture volume plumbs a seductively diverse and infinitely confusing subject: love. From Tristan and Isolde to Don Juan, Cecilia Valdes, Emma Bovary, and the love fables of modern mass…
The volume systematically presents the genre of travel literature in historical perspective and its broad relevance for contemporary societies. It examines the historical, economic, social, and political backdrops of travel…
Prussia as a nation-state, as a cultural state, as a military power: beyond these one-dimensional ideas, Ottmar Ette’s new book unfolds the picture of a multi-perspective Prussia. From Anton Wilhelm…
Die Debatte um die Frage nach dem Lebenswissen hat weiter an Fahrt aufgenommen, seitdem der Begriff im Jahr 2007 von Ottmar Ette in die kulturwissenschaftliche Diskussion eingefuhrt wurde. Die im…
This volume takes the view that globalization is not a recent phenomenon, but instead an enduring process, marked by four periods of accelerated change. The Early Modern period in European…
This transareal lecture inquires into the (perhaps already lost) unity of Romanticism behind the polymorphism of the Romantic discourses that took place between two worlds, Europe and America. This lecture…
Die transareal angelegte Vorlesung will versuchen, nach der (verlorenen) Einheit der Aufklarung und nach den transatlantisch verflochtenen Geschichten des 18. Jahrhunderts im Bewusstsein der Vielgestaltigkeit aufklarerischer Diskurse zwischen zwei
Die Erfindung der Amerikas ist nicht mit der Auffindung Amerikas gleichzusetzen. Das Erfundene geht bei der Genese der Amerikas dem Gefundenen voraus und verandert dieses Aufgefundene so, dass in einem…
Our own birth and death elude our conscious experience. The world’s literatures give us the opportunity to access the beginning and end of a life, to represent, reflect upon, and…
Am 26. Mai des Revolutionsjahres 1789 hielt Friedrich Schiller seine beruhmte programmatische Antrittsvorlesung Was heisst und zu welchem Ende studiert man Universalgeschichte? an der Universitat Jena. Dabei situierte sich der…
"The Whole World, the Whole Man" was the name of an international conference held at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities to mark Alexander von Humboldt's 250th birthday. The…
Within the USA, New Orleans has long been considered the un-American city, seen as exotic and different, even as a socio-geographical accident. It is a crossroads not only for the…
The future of area studies lies in opening out into TransArea studies, which tie together area-connected competencies with transdisciplinary research practices.
This edited volume, which features essays from prominent German, Brazilian, and Portuguese scholars, deals with the personal relations and intensive intellectual collaboration between Joao Guimaraes Rosa (1908-1967) and his German…
Proposes that there is no better, no more complex way to access a community, a society, an era and its cultures than through literature.
Alexander von Humboldt
In 1799, the authors set out to determine whether the Orinoco River connected with the Amazon. This title brings together drawings and detailed texts to achieve multifaceted views of cultures…
The research Alexander von Humboldt amassed during his five-year trek through the Americas in the early 19th century proved foundational to the fields of botany and geology. But his visit…
Alexander Von Humboldt
Volume 1 of this critical edition includes a note on the text from the Humboldt in English team, an introduction by editors Vera M. Kutzinski and Ottmar Ette, a preface…
Volume 2 of this critical edition includes the translation of Volumes 3 and 4 of the second, revised French edition of Alexander von Humboldt’s Essai politique sur le royaume de…
Proceedings of a conference held at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin on May 31-June 3, 1999.
