Dainotto Europe (in Theory)

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8962-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 282 Seiten

A postcolonial study of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century theorizations that have informed the dominant idea of Europe, a concept that has marginalized the southern "other" within it's own borders.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dainotto, Roberto M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: A Pigs Eye View of Europe 1

1. The Discovery of Europe: Some Critical Points 11

2. Montesquieu’s North and South: History as a Theory of Europe 52

3. Republics of Letters: What Is European Literature? 87

4. Mme de Stael to Hegel: The End of French Europe 134

5. Orientalism, Mediterranean Style: The Limits of History at the Margins of Europe 172

Notes 219

Works Cited 239

Index 267

Über Autor(innen)

Roberto M. Dainotto is Associate Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University. He is the author of Place in Literature: Regions, Cultures, Communities.