TY - BOOK ID - 118271128 TI - Orienting the self : the German literary encounter with the Eastern other PY - 2023 SN - 1782043438 1322198764 1571135944 PB - Rochester, New York : Camden House, DB - UniCat KW - German literature KW - Orientalism in literature. KW - Self in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - Asian influences. KW - Asia KW - Foreign public opinion, German. KW - Asian and Pacific Council countries KW - Eastern Hemisphere KW - Eurasia KW - Debra N. Prager. KW - Eastern subject. KW - Effi Briest. KW - Europe's eastward gaze. KW - Fortunatus. KW - German literary tradition. KW - German literature. KW - Heinrich von Ofterdingen. KW - Orient. KW - Oriental. KW - Parzival. KW - The Magic Mountain. KW - Washington and Lee University. KW - literary device. KW - subjectivity. KW - wholeness. KW - Subjectivity in literature. KW - Outsiders in literature. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:118271128 AB - Through the Crusades, the early modern era, and the age of imperialism, Europeans regarded the Eastern subject as requiring both 'discovery' and conquest. Conveniently, the 'Oriental' came to represent fanaticism, terrorism, moral laxity, and inscrutability, among other stereotypes. The list of German literary works that reinforced negative clichš about the East is long, but Orienting the Self argues for the presence in the Germanliterary tradition of a powerful perception of the East as the scene of desire, fantasy, and fulfillment. It follows the evolution of the Orient as a literary device and demonstrates how it was used to explore subjectivity and the possibility of wholeness. ER -