Writing Switzerland
Culture, History, and Politics in the Work of Peter von Matt
The work of Peter von Matt, Switzerland's finest living literary critic, offers a model of humanisticscholarship par excellence: learned, gracious, elegant, dancing nimbly from history andculture to politics and philosophy. Von Matt weaves engaging literary analyses that aresimultaneously interpretations not only of authors and texts but also of Swiss nationhooditself. Inspired in particular by his 2012 volume Das Kalb vor der Gotthardpost: Zur Literaturund Politik der Schweiz (The Calf Fleeing the St. Gotthard Mail Coach: On the Literatureand Politics of Switzerland; winner of that year's Swiss Book Prize), this interdisciplinarycollection o…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Meilaender, Peter (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-78997-553-6
- EAN: 9781789975536
- Produktnummer: 31941116
- Verlag: Peter Lang
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H22.5 cm x B15.0 cm x D1.5 cm 408 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 408
Über den Autor
Peter C. Meilaender is Professor of Political Science at Houghton College. The author of Toward a Theory of Migration (2001), his current research focuses on politics and literature, especially German-language literature. He is co-director of the Swiss Studies Network of the German Studies Association and a member of the board of the Austrian Studies Association. Hans J. Rindisbacher is Professor of German Studies at Pomona College. His The Smell of Books: A Cultural-Historical Study of Olfactory Perception in Literature (1992) is a pathbreaking comparative literary study of olfactory representation. He is co-director of the Swiss Studies Network of the German Studies Association.
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