Dear All,
Editions Rodopi is pleased to announce three new publications in
Comparative Literature.
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Imagology
The cultural construction and literary representation of national
characters. A critical survey.
Edited by Manfred Beller and Joep Leerssen
Amsterdam/New York, NY 2007. XVI, 476 pp. (Studia Imagologica 13)
ISBN: 978-90-420-2317-8 Bound
ISBN: 978-90-420-2318-5 Paper
Online info:
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More info:
How do national stereotypes emerge? To which extent are they
determined by historical or ideological circumstances, or else by
cultural, literary or discursive conventions? This first inclusive
critical compendium on national characterizations and national
(cultural or ethnic) stereotypes contains 120 articles by 73
contributors. Its three parts offer [1] a number of in-depth survey
articles on ethnic and national images in European literatures and
cultures over many centuries; [2] an encyclopedic survey of the
stereotypes and characterizations traditionally ascribed to various
ethnicities and nationalities; and [3] a conspectus of relevant
concepts in various cultural fields and scholarly disciplines. The
volume as a whole, as well as each of the articles, has extensive
bibliographies for further critical reading. Imagology is intended
both for students and for senior scholars, facilitating not only a
first acquaintance with the historical development, typology and
poetics of national stereotypes, but also a deepening of our
understanding and analytical perspective by interdisciplinary and
comparative contextualization and extensive cross-referencing.
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