A timely collection of new essays arguing for the continuing relevance and impact of Hesse’s works around the world.
Hermann Hesse remains one of the great figures of world literature. He is the world’s 35th most translated author, with more than 1, 500 translations of his works currently listed on UNESCO’s Index Translatorium. Our understanding of the reciprocal transcultural reception of literature has been radically transformed in the last two decades, starting with David Damrosch’s
What Is World Literature? (2003). Meanwhile, some forty years have passed since Martin Pfeifer’s anthology
Hermann Hesses weltweite Wirkung (Hermann Hesse’s Worldwide Impact) was published, which means it is time to consider Hesse’s global impact again, though not in terms of a country-by-country study. Rather, this book explores Hesse’s continuing global relevance more broadly. Hesse is ’global’ in the sense that his themes touch on the non-material side of human existence in a way that readers in different cultural communities respond to. His prose and poetry offer an oasis of calm, authenticity, and spirituality – a mental terrain of profound and genuine meaning. The present collection of new essays argues that this ’spiritual capital’ may help readers of Hesse in uncertain times, beyond the doctrines of organized religions or ideologies, assisting them in inhabiting creatively both the world of literature and the visceral world of the early 21st century.
Contributors: Flavia Arzeni, Thomas Cyron, Helga Esselborn-Krumbiegel, Carina Gröner, Karl-Josef Kuschel, Thomas Taro Lennerfors, Volker Michels, Christopher Newton, Shrikant Arun Pathak, John Pizer, Adam Roberts, Christiane Schönfeld, Laszlo V. Szabo, Girissha Ameya Tilak, Oscar von Seth, Jennifer Walker, Yoichi Yamamoto, Michal Zawadzki, and Chunhua Zhan.
Innehållsförteckning
Foreword: Hermann Hesse: Going Global before Globalization –
Volker Michels
Introduction: Rethinking Hermann Hesse’s Global Impact –
Ingo Cornils
PART I: Hesse’s Literary Impact
1. Hermann Hesse’s Democratization of World Literature –
John Pizer
2. A World Literature of One’s Own: Hermann Hesse and the Digital Age –
Adam Roberts
3. Hermann Hesse in Cultural Memory: Intertextual Traces in American, Japanese, and German Literature –
Helga Esselborn-Krumbiegel
4. ’Jugendgedenken’ (Memories of Youth): The Impact of a Hermann Hesse Short Story in Japan over 70 Years –
Yoichi Yamamoto
5. Hilda Rosner’s Labor of Love: How a Mysterious Outsider Extended Hesse’s Global Reach –
Christopher Newton
PART II: Hesse’s Cultural Impact
6. Beneath the Wheel of Heteronormativity: Queer Representation in Hermann Hesse’s
Unterm Rad –
Oscar von Seth
7. The Intertextual Wings of Abraxas: Hermann Hesse Meets BTS, Korean Pop Music’s Most Influential Band –
Jennifer Walker
8. Hermann Hesse’s Impact on Mainland China –
Chunhua Zhan
9. Contemporary Marathi ’Versions’ of Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha-An ’Indian Novel’ in Translation –
Shrikant Arun Pathak and Girissha Ameya Tilak
10. Hesse on Film:
Narziss und Goldmund (2020) in Context –
Christiane Schönfeld
PART III: Hesse’s Philosophical Impact
11. Hermann Hesse: Searching for an Ethos of Humanity –
Karl-Josef Kuschel
12. On Hesse and Gardening –
Flavia Arzeni
13. Struggling with Technology: Hermann Hesse’s View on How to Live Well with Craft, Modern, and Cybernetic Technologies –
Thomas Taro Lennerfors, Thomas Cyron,
and
Michal Zawadzki
14. Your own personal Buddha: Hermann Hesse’s
Siddhartha: Depicting Constructivist Experiential Learning through Internal Focalization –
Carina Gröner
15. Depression and Therapy in Hermann Hesse’s Works –
Laszlo V. Szabo
Conclusion
A Novel Approach to Understanding Hermann Hesse’s Global Impact through the Notion of Spiritual Capital –
Neale
Cunningham
Select Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
Om författaren
NEALE CUNNINGHAM is a Specially Appointed Professor at Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan.
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