Kritikai patriotizmus
Critical patriotism

Summary/Abstract: Peter von Matt discusses the ambivalent relationship between 20th century literary discourses and the representations of Switzerland. The emergence of a critical approach toward Swiss patriotism in literature is analysed in its historical context. The author presents Switzerland through its myths, and contemporary language issues related to these myths. He is interested in the contradictions that continue to characterize Swiss politics and Swiss literature. The conflicts between local and global, national and universal in the works of Switzerland’s major writers are presented as a love/hate situation, where the ambivalent nature of Eros serves as an analogy for the analysis.

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