LINGUIST List 22.3317 Sun Aug 21 2011 Books: Linguistics & Literature/Sociolinguistics: Roberts Editor for this issue: Danniella Hornby <daniellalinguistlist.org> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Laura Bally , Literary Nationalism in German and Japanese Germanistik: Roberts Message 1: Literary Nationalism in German and Japanese Germanistik: Roberts Date: 18-Aug-2011 From: Laura Bally <publicitypeterlang.com> Subject: Literary Nationalism in German and Japanese Germanistik: Roberts E-mail this message to a friend Title: Literary Nationalism in German and Japanese Germanistik Series Title: Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics - Volume 78 Published: 2011 Publisher: Peter Lang AG                 http://www.peterlang.com Book URL: http://www.peterlang.com/?310934 Author: Lee M. Roberts Hardback: ISBN: 9781433109348 Pages: 243 Price: U.S. $ 85.95 Hardback: ISBN: 9781433109348 Pages: 243 Price: U.K. £ 52.00 Hardback: ISBN: 9781433109348 Pages: 243 Price: Europe EURO 57.30 Comment: for Germany EURO 61.30, for Austria EURO 63.00 (incl. VAT) Abstract: Literary Nationalism in German and Japanese Germanistik traces the convergence of German and Japanese metaphors for national literary spirit through the academic study of the German language and literature in Germanistik. Early notions of a spiritual link to the national literary tradition allowed speakers of German to imagine their unity before the existence of the modern German state, but the concept for spirit also gained various nuances in the works of such writers as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the Brothers Grimm, E.T.A. Hoffmann, and Hermann Hesse. Moreover, throughout the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, scholars and thinkers increasingly equated literary spirit with the psychology of the German nation. Against the background of these developments, the slogans of university students who burned books of so-called un-German spirit in 1933 gained a particularly ominous meaning. Interestingly, for Japanese contemplating German literature in the late nineteenth century, the native idea of national literary spirit was one of many concepts that differed from their German counterparts. However, skilled writers and translators like Mori Ogai invested old words with new meanings, and by the 1930s Japanese scholars of Germanistik had not only documented the discourse on German national literary spirit but also deemed it synonymous with the spirit of Japan's own tradition. The Author: Lee M. Roberts is Assistant Professor of German Language and Literature at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. He received his Ph.D. in German from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include East-West literary relations, the literature of fascism, and comparative Germanistik. He edited the volume of essays Germany and the Imagined East (2005). 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