Niels Werber
Die Geopolitik der Literatur: Eine Vermessung der medialen Weltraumordnung.
Munich: Carl Hanser Verlag, 2007. First printing. 9783446209473 333 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6" x 8.75", is bound in burnt orange paper spine and boards, with gilt-lettered brown spine labels. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover.
"What role does literature play in geopolitics? How do literary spatial fantasies relate to political visions and ideologies with tangible consequences? At least since Heinrich von Kleist's "Die Hermannschlacht" (Battle of the Teutoburg Forest), where the question of the course of Germany's borders is discussed, literature has also been mixed into questions of territorial order. National space is just one topic; the distinction between different cultural spaces is at least as important. Niels Werber systematically examines this phenomenon for the first time. Authors as diverse as Heinrich von Kleist, Hermann Melville and J.R.R. Tolkien gain from this perspective a surprisingly new side, which goes some way in explaining the fascination that comes from their works."