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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca [New York]
Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library,
2021.
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| Series: | Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "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."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9781501759758 1501759752 9781501759765 1501759760 |