âBringing the Foreign Closer to Usâ: Cross-Cultural Literary Matchmaking in Georg Brandesâ Letters

Julie K. Allen

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Chapter 6 âBringing the Foreign Closer to Usâ

Cross-Cultural Literary Matchmaking in Georg Brandesâ Letters

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In keeping with his view that great thinkers are integrally connected to the historical contexts in which they lived, Georg Brandes pursued epistolary relationships with many of the most prominent authors of his time, as well as with a wide range of private individuals. His letters reflect both his attempt to understand their relationship to their own contexts and his desire to introduce them to foreign artistic impulses that might complement and enhance their understanding and depictions of the world. This chapter demonstrates how Brandes used his extensive private correspondence with hundreds of correspondents in a dozen countries to bring particular writers and thinkers from different national traditions into contact with each other, introducing them to each otherâs works and drawing them into a transnational dialogue about literature, aesthetics, and society. The transcultural, comparative quality of Brandesâ epistolary efforts at closing the gap between cultures that conceive of each other as âforeignâ is both highly significant for the development of comparative literary studies as a discipline and one of his most enduring accomplishments.

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Georg Brandes

A Pioneer of Comparative Literature and a Global Public Intellectual

Series:Â Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft Online, Volume: 213Â andÂ Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, Volume: 213

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Print Publication Date:: 11 Dec 2023

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Cross-Cultural Literary Matchmaking in Georg Brandesâ Letters

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Chapter 6 âBringing the Foreign Closer to Usâ

Cross-Cultural Literary Matchmaking in Georg Brandesâ Letters