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

Chinese Sympathies examines how Europeans-and German-speaking writers and thinkers in particular-identified with Chinese intellectual and literary traditions following the circulation of Marco Polo's Travels. This sense of affinity expanded and deepened, Daniel Leonhard Purdy shows, as generati...

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1. Verfasser: Purdy, Daniel Leonhard (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press [2022]
Schriftenreihe:Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
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Zusammenfassung:Chinese Sympathies examines how Europeans-and German-speaking writers and thinkers in particular-identified with Chinese intellectual and literary traditions following the circulation of Marco Polo's Travels. This sense of affinity expanded and deepened, Daniel Leonhard Purdy shows, as generations of Jesuit missionaries, Baroque encyclopedists, Enlightenment moralists, and translators established intellectual regimes that framed China as being fundamentally similar to Europe. Analyzing key German literary texts-theological treatises, imperial histories, tragic dramas, moral philosophies, literary translations, and poetic cycles-Chinese Sympathies traces the connections from Baroque-era missionary reports that accommodated Christianity with Confucianism to Goethe's concept of world literature, bridged by Enlightenment debates over cosmopolitanism and sympathy-culminating in a secular principle that allowed readers to identify meaningful similarities across culturally diverse literatures based on shared human experiences
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2022)
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (420 pages) 3 b&w halftones
ISBN:9781501759765
DOI:10.1515/9781501759765

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