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Аннотация: The tendency to attribute specific characteristics or even characters to different societies, races or nations is very old and very widespread. The default value of humans contacts with different cultures seems to have been ethnocentric, in that anything that deviated fromaccustomeddomestic patterns is Othered as an oddity, an anomaly, a singularity. Such ethnocentric registrations of cultural difference have tended to stratify into a notion that, like persons, different nations each have their specific peculiarities and character although that term is itself historically more complex than one might think at first. The informal, anecdotal belief in different national characters formed the unquestioned cognitive ambience of cultural criticism and reflection until the late eighteenth century. In the course of the nineteenth century it became embedded in the comparative-historical paradigm that dominated the human sciences. The twentieth century showed, first, an acritical comparatist preoccupation with registering and describing the textual evidence of such national characterizations, and later an increasingly stringent disavowal of national essentialism and national determinism. This in turn was to lead to a deconstructive and critical analysis of the rhetoric of national characterization the beginning of imagology proper as pursued in the present volume. In what follows here, these historical developments will be outlined, and then followed by some reflections on the theoretical and methodological toolkit that is available to the present-day imagologist.
Год издания: 2007
Авторы: Joep Leerssen
Издательство: Brill
Источник: BRILL eBooks
Ключевые слова: Themes in Literature Analysis, Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies, Literacy and Educational Practices
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Philologist – Journal Of Langugage, Literary And Cultural Studies (University of Banja Luka) (PDF)
Philologist – Journal Of Langugage, Literary And Cultural Studies (University of Banja Luka) (HTML)
Philologist – Journal Of Langugage, Literary And Cultural Studies (University of Banja Luka) (PDF)
Philologist – Journal Of Langugage, Literary And Cultural Studies (University of Banja Luka) (HTML)
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Страницы: 17–32