Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1: The Vision of the Eastern Other in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival 29
6. 2: Mapping the World and the Self: Fortunatus and the Age of Discovery 74
7. 3: Discovering the “Great Orient within Us”: Novalis’s Heinrich von Ofterdingen 119
8. 4: The Oedipal and the Orient in Theodor Fontane’s Effi Briest 189
9. 5: “The Asian Principle” in Thomas Mann’s Der Zauberberg 220
10. Conclusion 283
11. Bibliography 297
12. Index 311