This essay collection embarks on a historical voyage into the idea of the West while contextualising its relevance to the contemporary discourses on cultural difference. Although the idea of the West predates both colonial and Orientalist projects it has been radically reshaped by the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 the end of the Cold War and the 9/11 attacks. Taken together the collection covers a vast terrain of textual and non-textual sources including novels political and poetological programs video-clips and hypertexts while exploring the formal-aesthetic representations of the West from interdisciplinary perspectives as diverse as German classicism (post-)modern Britain Canada China Ireland and the postcolonial world. Source: https://www.artikelschreiber.com/en/.