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Jens Bjerring-Hansen - Georg Brandes, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Georg Brandes

A Pioneer of Comparative Literature and a Global Public Intellectual

Av Jens Bjerring-Hansen

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Georg Brandes (1842-1927) was one of the leading literary critics in Europe of his time. His Main Currents of Nineteenth Century Literature (1872-1890) was a foundational text to the field of comparative literature and extolled by Thomas Mann as the “Bible of the young intellectual Europe at the turn of the century.” Georg Brandes eventually developed into a truly global public intellectual, living by his pen and public lectures. On the eve of World War I, he was one of the most sought-after commentators, vigorously opposing all conflicting factions. This book seeks to understand Brandes’ trajectory, to evaluate Brandes’ significance for current discussions of literary criticism and public engagement, and to introduce Brandes to an international audience. It consists of 15 original chapters commissioned from experts in the field.
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Jens Bjerring-Hansen, PhD, is Associate Professor of Scandinavian Literature at the University of Copenhagen. He has published widely on Danish and Scandinavian literary and cultural history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Most recent book publication is the volume Scandinavian Exceptionalisms (2021, with Torben Jelsbak and Anna Mrozewicz).Anders Engberg-Pedersen received his PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University and in Neuere Deutsche Literatur from Humboldt Universität in 2012. He is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Southern Denmark and Chair of Humanities at the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies. His publications include Empire of Chance. The Napoleonic Wars and the Disorder of Things (HUP, 2015) and Martial Aesthetics. How War Became an Art Form (SUP, forthcoming 2023).Lasse Horne Kjældgaard, dr.phil. and PhD, is Professor of Danish Literature at the University of Southern Denmark and Director of the Hans Christian Andersen Centre. He has published numerous monographs and articles on Danish literary and cultural history.

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“Comparative Literature contributes to a sense of being at home in a world that is heterogeneous and fractured, rather than affirming a monolithic canon marked by territory and homogeneity.” This is what our editors wrote in the introduction of the 200th jubilee volume Taking Stock – Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary Research (2019). The past volumes in this series provide a look into the history of Comparative Literary Studies of the last three decades. Having started with ‘classical’ literary studies, the series opened to contemporary approaches such as migration studies, memory studies, and human-animal studies. Thus, it is ready for its future.Norbert Bachleitner, Universität Wien, Austria - Juliane Werner, Universität Wien, Austria

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