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

"Chinese Sympathies analyzes key German literary texts by placing scholarship on early modern Chinese empires and missionaries in conjunction with German media theory from the last twenty-five years (most notably, Friedrich Kittler). Daniel Leonhard Purdy traces a connection from Baroque-era mi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Purdy, Daniel L., author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press 2021
2021.
Colección:Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
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Sumario:"Chinese Sympathies analyzes key German literary texts by placing scholarship on early modern Chinese empires and missionaries in conjunction with German media theory from the last twenty-five years (most notably, Friedrich Kittler). Daniel Leonhard Purdy traces a connection 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."--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (1 online resource)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781501759734
9781501759765
Acceso:Open access