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Writing Switzerland: Culture, History, and Politics in the Work of Peter von Matt

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The work of Peter von Matt, Switzerlands 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 years Swiss Book Prize), this interdisciplinary
collection of essays by leading North American scholars of Swiss Studies supplies a critical
but appreciative engagement with von Matts writing. Of interest to students of literature
and of Switzerland, it is the first volume devoted specifically to probing the legacy of von
Matts thought. It is thus a worthy testimony to the richness and influence of one of late
twentieth- and early twenty-first-century Switzerlands 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 leichtfüßig zwischen Geschichte und Kultur zu Politik und
Philosophie. Dadurch entstehen ansprechende Literaturanalysen, die nicht nur wichtige
Autoren und Texte, sondern auch die Schweizer nationale Identität an sich interpretieren.
Besonders durch sein 2012 erschienenes und mit dem Schweizer Buchpreis gekrönten
Buch Das Kalb vor der Gotthardpost: Zur Literatur und Politik der Schweiz inspiriert, liefert
diese interdisziplinäre Essaysammlung, die von führenden nordamerikanischen Swiss
Studies Forschern verfasst wurde, eine manchmal kritische, aber dabei immer auch mit
Wertschätzung durchzogene Auseinandersetzung mit von Matts Schriften. Studenten der
Schweizer Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften bietet diese bahnbrechende Sammlung die
Möglichkeit, sich mit von Matts Gedankengut auseinanderzusetzen. Damit legt der
vorliegende Band von dem Reichtum und dem Einfluss eines der führenden Schweizer
Intellektuellen des späten 20. und frühen 21. Jahrhunderts Zeugnis ab.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 409g
  • Dimensions: 150 x 225mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Jun 2019
  • Publisher: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781789975536

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Peter C. Meilaender is Professor of Political Science at Houghton College. The author of Toward a Theory of Migration (2001) his current research focuses on politics and literature especially German-language literature. He is co-director of the Swiss Studies Network of the German Studies Association and a member of the board of the Austrian Studies Association. Hans J. Rindisbacher is Professor of German Studies at Pomona College. His The Smell of Books: A Cultural-Historical Study of Olfactory Perception in Literature (1992) is a pathbreaking comparative literary study of olfactory representation. He is co-director of the Swiss Studies Network of the German Studies Association.

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