But Akbar's Cloak was cut from the cloths of time and space, and these people were not his. Why then, did he feel so strong a sense of kinship with the denizens of these braying lanes? Why did he understand their unspeakable Eropean tongue as if it were his own?
('The Enchantress of Florence', Page 141-142)

1. Introduction
1.1 On Object and Method
1.2 Notation
1.3 Terminology and History – What is Cosmopolitanism?
1.4 Outlining the Novels
2. Examples of Cosmopolitanism
2.1 "People, places, narratives, possibilities of lands yet unknown“ - Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence
2.1.1 Exiles, wanderers
2.1.2 Travelers, dreamers – Akbar, Il Machia and Princess Gulbadan
2.1.3 The Cosmopolitan
2.2 “Heim kommt man nie, aber wo befreundete Wege zusammenlaufen, da sieht die ganze Welt für eine Stunde wie Heimat aus” - Hesse's Demian
3. The Disciples of Abraxas
3.1 Shared Features and Differences in Hesse and Rushdie
3.2 Cosmopolitanism as Predisposition
3.3 Synchronicity and Psychology – The Influence of Carl Gustav Jung's Ideas on Both Novels
4. Excursus – Revolutionary Girl Utena and The Shell of the World
4.1 Outline of Plot and Characters
4.2 Shared Themes
4.3 Queerness as a Version of Cosmopolitanism
5. Final Thoughts

Bibliography
Appendix (links)

Essays
Personality + Relationship + Narrative + Miscellany + Music

Context
Introduction + Characters + Reference + Submission

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