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The following is a new publication which might interest you. At the moment it is offered with 30% discount until November 30th 2013*. More information at [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> From Popular Goethe to Global Pop. The Idea of the West between Memory and (Dis)Empowerment. With a Foreword by Aleida Assmann. Edited by Ines Detmers and Birte Heidemann Rodopi Amsterdam/New York, NY 2013. 257 pp. (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 166) ISBN: 978-90-420-3749-6 Paper ?55-/US$74,- ISBN: 978-94-012-1000-3 E-Book ?49-/US$66,- Online info: http://www.rodopi.nl/functions/search.asp?BookId=IFAVL+166 This essay collection embarks on a historical voyage into the idea of the West, while contextualising its relevance to the contemporary discourses on cultural difference. Although the idea of the West predates both colonial and Orientalist projects, it has been radically reshaped by the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the end of the Cold War and the 9/11 attacks. In the wake of these developments, this collection attends to the nebulous paradigm shifts that account for a reconfiguration of the conventional coordinates of the West (West vs. Rest, Orient vs. Occident). The essays featured in this collection draw upon a wide range of theories from a comparative perspective. Taken together, the collection covers a vast terrain of textual and non-textual sources, including novels, political and poetological programs, video-clips and hypertexts, while exploring the formal-aesthetic representations of the West from interdisciplinary perspectives as diverse as German classicism, (post-)modern Britain, Canada, China, Ireland and the postcolonial world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Aleida Assmann: Vorwort Ines Detmers and Birte Heidemann: Einleitung: Annäherungen an den WestenProjekte, Praktiken, Prozesse Anil Bhatti: Der Orient als Experimentierfeld. Goethes Divan und der Aneignungsprozess kolonialen Wissens Katrin Schmeißner: Goethe als Korrektiv: Klassiker-Entwürfe Benedetto Crocesund José Ortega y Gassets Kathleen Starck: A Lot of Catching Up to Do ? The West as a Civiliser ofPost-Cold War Eastern Europe in Rose Tremain?s The Road Home Oliver Lindner: The End of the West in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction Michael Ostheimer: Im Zeichen des Wolfs. Die Schriftsteller Jiang Rong undLu Xun als Grenzgänger zwischen chinesischer Traditionund westlicher Moderne Susan Nitzsche: Regional (Re)Conceptions of the Irish West Malreddy Pavan Kumar: Pulp, Sci-fi and the Politics of Other Fictions: Face to Face with Mohsin Hamid Birte Heidemann: Embodiments of the West: Texture and Textuality of theSymbolic Body in Mohsin Hamid?s The Reluctant Fundamentalist Niven Kumar & Lucyna Swiatek: Contradictions of Human Agency from Victorian Cosmopolitanism to Postmodern Eclecticism Denis Simon: New Narrative Forms as a Subversion of Established Literary Norms:Walter Pater?s Marius the Epicureanand the Negative Bildungsromanof the 1880s and 1890s Ines Detmers: ?Look West in Anger?: Exklusive Emotopien in Christian Krachts1979 und Salman Rushdies Fury. Ein Beitrag zur Affektpoetik des neo-dekadenten Romans Ana Sobral: Towards a ?World Revolution??Forging a Transnational Emancipation Narrative fromTahrir Square to Wall Street Notes on Contributors -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.