Gebundenes Buch

Failures East and West

Cultural Encounters Between East Asia and Europe

Herausgeber: Hertel, Ralf; Sandrock, Kirsten

Beschreibung

Bringing together scholars working across Chinese Studies, Japanese Studies, English Studies and French Studies, this book presents new perspectives on instances of failed intercultural encounters by theorizing epistemologies of failure.

Autor

University of Trier, Germany Ralf Hertel is Professor of English Literature at the University of Trier, Germany. He has published in the field of Anglo-Asian literary encounters, early modern studies as well as contemporary literature. Among his most recent book publications are English Poetry in Context: From the 16th to the 21st Century (with Peter Hühn; 2021), Empowering Contemporary Fiction in English: The Impact of Empowerment in Literary Studies (ed. with Eva-Maria Windberger; 2021), Early Encounters between East Asia and Europe: Telling Failures (ed. with Michael Keevak; 2017) and Staging England in the Elizabethan History Play: Performing National Identity (2014). He was a guest professor at the Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, in 2015. Kirsten Sandrock is Chair of English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Würzburg. Her research ranges from the early modern literature and culture to contemporary Anglophone studies, and she has published widely on intercultural encounters, colonial and postcolonial studies, Shakespeare, travel writing, gender and genre studies. She is the author of Scottish Colonial Literature: Writing the Atlantic, 1603-1707 (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), co-editor of Locating Italy: East and West in British-Italian Transactions (2013) and of the Shakespeare Seminar Online.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9781399500517
• ISBN-10: 1399500511
• Artikelnr.: 65695907