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Writing Switzerland - Culture, History, and Politics in the Work of Peter von Matt (Paperback, New edition) Loot Price: R1,537
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Writing Switzerland - Culture, History, and Politics in the Work of Peter von Matt (Paperback, New edition): Peter Meilaender,...

Writing Switzerland - Culture, History, and Politics in the Work of Peter von Matt (Paperback, New edition)

Peter Meilaender, Hans Rindisbacher

Series: German Studies in America, 75

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The work of Peter von Matt, Switzerland's finest living literary critic, offers a model of humanistic scholarship par excellence: learned, gracious, elegant, dancing nimbly from history and culture to politics and philosophy. Von Matt weaves engaging literary analyses that are simultaneously interpretations not only of authors and texts but also of Swiss nationhood itself. Inspired in particular by his 2012 volume Das Kalb vor der Gotthardpost: Zur Literatur und Politik der Schweiz (The Calf Fleeing the St. Gotthard Mail Coach: On the Literature and Politics of Switzerland; winner of that year's Swiss Book Prize), this interdisciplinary collection of essays by leading North American scholars of Swiss Studies supplies a critical but appreciative engagement with von Matt's writing. Of interest to students of literature and of Switzerland, it is the first volume devoted specifically to probing the legacy of von Matt's thought. It is thus a worthy testimony to the richness and influence of one of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Switzerland's leading intellectuals. Die Schriften von Peter von Matt, dem bedeutendsten Literaturkritiker der heutigen Schweiz, sind Beispiele humanistischer Gelehrsamkeit par excellence. Gebildet, anmutig und elegant bewegen sie sich leichtfussig zwischen Geschichte und Kultur zu Politik und Philosophie. Dadurch entstehen ansprechende Literaturanalysen, die nicht nur wichtige Autoren und Texte, sondern auch die Schweizer nationale Identitat an sich interpretieren. Besonders durch sein 2012 erschienenes und mit dem Schweizer Buchpreis gekroenten Buch Das Kalb vor der Gotthardpost: Zur Literatur und Politik der Schweiz inspiriert, liefert diese interdisziplinare Essaysammlung, die von fuhrenden nordamerikanischen Swiss Studies Forschern verfasst wurde, eine manchmal kritische, aber dabei immer auch mit Wertschatzung durchzogene Auseinandersetzung mit von Matts Schriften. Studenten der Schweizer Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften bietet diese bahnbrechende Sammlung die Moeglichkeit, sich mit von Matts Gedankengut auseinanderzusetzen. Damit legt der vorliegende Band von dem Reichtum und dem Einfluss eines der fuhrenden Schweizer Intellektuellen des spaten 20. und fruhen 21. Jahrhunderts Zeugnis ab.

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Imprint: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: German Studies in America, 75
Release date: June 2019
First published: 2019
Editors: Peter Meilaender • Hans Rindisbacher
Dimensions: 225 x 150mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 278
Edition: New edition
ISBN-13: 978-1-78997-553-6
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
Books > Philosophy > General
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LSN: 1-78997-553-0
Barcode: 9781789975536

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