The Idea of Europe in Literature

ISBN-13: 9781349274987 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 244 str.

Susanne Fendler; Ruth Wittlinger

Opis

The relevance of culture has recently enjoyed increasing recognition for the study of European integration and a European identity. Appeals to a common European culture as well as appeals to different national cultures have been used respectively as a means to pursue political ends. Paying tribute to literature's role as an important constituent part of a culture, this collection of essays explores literary representations of Europe and its nation states and should be of particular value to anyone who is interested in cultural, political or literary studies in the European context.

Spis treści

Foreword by Bernard Crick PART I: PORTRAYAL OF CONTINENT Charlotte Bront�s Alternative European Community; J.B.Gordon Nation and Narration: Continental Europe and the English Novel; S.Mergenthal Guglhupf and Ancient Castles: Images of Austria and Germany in the English Historical Romance and Gothic Novel, 1960-1990; U.Horstmann Discovering 'Europe in the Process of Repatriation in Primo Levi's La Tregua ; A.Flury PART II: INNER/OUTER PERSPECTIVE IN COMPARISON The Transformation of the English/Western Literature Canon; M.Frank France and its 'DOM': the Ambivalence of the Minority-Majority Relationship; U.Fendler Immigrants in Britain: National Identities and Stereotypes; S.Fendler A Never Closer Union? The Idea of the European Union in Selected Works of Malcolm Bradbury; P.Nixon PART III: IDEA OF EUROPE AND NATIONAL IDENTITY A Romanian View of Europe: George Uscatescu; L.Mihut Eyvind Johnson and the History of Europe: Many Times in One Place; R.Hugoson Englishness from the Outside; R.Wittlinger Memories of Hell: Kieslowski's Vision of European Subjectivity; R.Boyne Europeans; Foreigners in Their Own Land; S.Gambaudo Index

O autorze

ROY BOYNE Professor of Sociology at Durham University UTE FENDLER currently working on Spanish travel literature of the eighteenth century ANGELA FLURY PhD candidate in the Comparative Literature Department at the University of California MARION FRANK working on a research project aiming to establish a closer link between literary/ cultural studies and medicine/medical anthropology SYLVIE GAMBAUDO Lecturer in European Studies at University College Stockton JAN B. GORDON Professor of Anglo-American Literature at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies URIKE HORSTMANN University of Würzburg, writing her doctoral thesis on the names in Spenser's the Faerie Queen ROLF HUGOSON Lecturer at the Center for Research and Debate on Cultural Policy, at the University College of Borås SILVIA MERGENTHAL Professor at the University of Konstanz LILIANA MIHUT Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science PAUL NIXON Senior Lecturer in Comparative Social Policy at the University of Teesside