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"East and West" and the Concept of Literature
Contributor(s): Ruttkowski, Wolfgang (Author)

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 ISBN: 3638798917     ISBN-13: 9783638798914
Publisher: Grin Verlag
OUR PRICE: $42.28  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: October 2007
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BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Literary Criticism | European - German
Physical Information: 0.11" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" L (0.15 lbs) 44 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Germany
Features: Bibliography
 
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Scientific Essay from the year 2001 in the subject German Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: none, Kyoto Sangyo University (X. International German Congress, Wien), 69 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: By carefully comparing observations made by specialists in Chinese, Indian, Japanese, and Western literature concerning problems of literary values, canon-formation, and the concept of literature itself, the author tries to answer some of the most pertinent questions in comparative aesthetics and ethnopoetics, specifically: Are literatures of radically different cultures comparable regarding literary values?- Do "universal" literary values exist?- Do literary values remain the same within the development of one culture?- Does the fact that certain works of literature have been valued over centuries indicate that "eternal values" exist?- Is the concept of literature the same in radically different cultures?- Does it remain the same within the development of one culture?- Are the basic genres (the lyric, epic, and dramatic) comparable?- Are certain analogous phenomena in Indian and Western literature indicative of basic similarities between these literatures?- Is at least the theory deduced from these literatures similar?- Is a unified theory of literature desirable?- Are literary canons established mainly according to perceived aesthetic values in the selected works?- If the answer to all of the questions above is NO, wherein lie the basic differences between Eastern and Western literatures?- (In: Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, Sambalpur University, Orissa/India, XXIV, 1-2, 2001, 89-125)
 
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