Heinrich Heine and the World Literary Map

Azade Seyhan is the Fairbank Professor in the Humanities, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Affiliated Faculty in Middle East Studies at Bryn Mawr College, USA. She is the author of Writing Outside the Nation (2001) and Tales of Crossed Destinies: The Modern Turkish Novel in a Comparative Context  (2008). She has published and lectured extensively on German Idealism and Romanticism, critical theory, exile narratives, Turkish-German literature, and the theory of the novel.

Introduction: Canon and the World Literary Writer.- “The Harz Journey”: Travelogue as Philosophical Satire.- The Exile as Cultural Translator.- Censored Works, Exiled Lives, Poetic Remembrances.- Ludwig Börne: A Memorial: A Double-Voiced Narrative of Exile.- Encoded Body, Encrypted Dance: Performance Contra Censorship.- Heinrich Heine: An Enduring Inspiration of World Literature.

“The book will prove stimulating for those working in similar areas, especially scholars of Heine as a writer on exile and as a critic of representation.” (William Ohm, Heine-Jahrbuch, Vol. 61, 2022)