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Translated from German:
Ottmar Ette
Literature on the Move.
Amsterdam/New York, NY 2003. 316 pp.
(Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden
Literaturwissenschaft 68)
ISBN: 90-420-1155-6 Paperback € 62,-
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 is travel literature, from
which the view opens up unto other spaces, dimensions and patterns of
movement which will shape the literatures of the 21th Century. And these
will become - one needs no prophetic gift to see - for a major part
literatures with no fixed abode. Signposts of this journey through
literature proposed by this book are texts by, among many others, Balzac,
Barthes, Baudrillard, Borges, Calvino, Condé, Cohen, Diderot, Goethe, A.v.
Humboldt, Kristeva, Reyes, Rodó or Stadler. This book will specially appeal
to an audience interested by comparative literature, literary theory, and
travel literature and will be of interest to anybody who delights in
«literary journeys».
Book reviews (German edition):
"Like Curtius' Europäische Literatur und lateinisches Mittelalter half a
century ago, Ette's book, too, is a basic work for the field which is born
of a fascination with the texts of the past..." (Neue Zürcher Zeitung)
"Ottmar Ette reconstructs the century-old tension between European and
non-European spaces in their border-crossings."(Frankfurter Rundschau)
"The observer of this landscape is in movement, sitting in a train,
perhaps,
with a book in his hands - maybe even with this book. Ottmar Ette is on the
traces of a poetics of movement..." (Literaturen)
Ottmar Ette is Chair of Romance Literature at the University of Potsdam,
Germany. He received the «Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz» Award in 1987 for his
edition of Humboldts Personal Narrative and the
«Hugo-Friedrich/Erich-Köhler» Award 2001 for his book on Roland Barthes.
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