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The series Studia Linguistica Germanica, founded in 1968 by Ludwig
Erich Schmitt and Stefan Sonderegger, is one of the standard
publication organs for German Linguistics. The series aims to cover
the whole spectrum of the subject, while concentrating on questions
relating to language history and the history of linguistic ideas.
It includes works on the historical grammar and semantics of
German, on the relationship of language and culture, on the history
of language theory, on dialectology, on lexicology / lexicography,
text linguisticsand on the location of German in the European
linguistic context.
Volume of new essays investigating Kleist's influences and sources
both literary and philosophical, their role as paradigms, and the
ways in which he responded to and often shattered them. Heinrich
von Kleist (1777-1811) was a rebel who upset canonization by
employing his predecessors and contemporaries as what Steven Howe
calls "inspirational foils." It was precisely a keen awareness of
literary and philosophical traditions that allowed Kleist to
shatter prevailing paradigms. Though little is known about what
specifically Kleist read, the frequent allusions in his enduringly
modern oeuvre indicate fruitful dialogues with both canonical and
marginal works of European literature, spanning antiquity (The Old
Testament, Sophocles), the Early Modern Period (Shakespeare, De
Zayas), the late Enlightenment (Wieland, Goethe, Schiller), and the
first eleven years of the nineteenth century (Mereau, Brentano,
Collin). Kleist's works also evidence encounters with his
philosophical precursors and contemporaries, including the ancient
Greeks (Aristotle) and representatives of all phases of
Enlightenment thought (Montesquieu, Rousseau, Ferguson, Spalding,
Fichte, Kant, Hegel), economic theories (Smith, Kraus), and
developments in anthropology, sociology, and law. This volume of
new essays sheds light on Kleist's relationship to his literary and
philosophical influences and on their function as paradigms to
which his writings respond.
A growing number of historians, political commentators, and cultural critics have sought to analyse Ireland's past and present in colonial terms. For some, including Irish Republicans, it is the only proper framework for understanding Ireland. Others reject the very use of the colonial label for Ireland's history; while using the term for the present can arouse outrage, especially amongst Ulster Unionists. This book evaluates and analyses these controversies, which range from debates over the ancient and medieval past to those in current literary and postcolonial theory. Scholarly, at times polemical, it is the most comprehensive study of these themes ever to appear. It will undoubtedly arouse sharp controversy.
This is the first full scholarly study of British anticolonialism,
an offshoot of a massive global upsurge of sentiment which has
dominated much of the history of this century. In this wide-ranging
and important book, Stephen Howe surveys the attitudes and
activities relating to colonial issues of British critics of Empire
during the years of decolonisation. He also evaluates the changing
ways in which, arising out of the experience of Empire and
decolonisation, more general ideas about imperialism, nationalism,
and underdevelopment were developed during these years. His
discussion encompasses both the left wing of the Labour Party and
groups outside it: in the Communist Party, other independent
left-wing groups, and single-issue campaigns. The book has
considerable contemporary relevance, for British reactions to more
recent events - the Falklands and Gulf Wars, race relations, South
African apartheid - cannot fully be understood except in the
context of the experience of decolonisation and the legacy of
Empire.
In recent years, imperial history has experienced a newfound
vigour, dynamism and diversity. There has been an explosion of new
work in the field, which has been driven into even greater
prominence by contemporary world events. However, this resurgence
has brought with it disputes between those who are labelled as
exponents of a a ~new imperial historya (TM) and those who can, by
default, be termed old imperial historians.
This collection not only gathers together some of the most
important, influential and controversial work which has come to be
labelled a ~new imperial historya (TM), but also presents key
examples of innovative recent writing across the broader fields of
imperial and colonial studies.
This book is the perfect companion for any student interested in
empires and global history.
A great deal of the world's history is the history of empires. And although the great historic imperial systems - the land-based Russian one as well as the seaborne empires of western European powers - have collapsed during the past half century, their legacies shape almost every aspect of life on a global scale. Meanwhile, what has replaced the old territorial empires in world politics? Do the United States and its allies, transnational companies, financial and media institutions, or more broadly the forces of 'globalization', constitute a new imperial system?
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By reconsidering Kleist's reception of Rousseau and placing it in
historical context, this book sheds new light on a range of
political and ethical issues at play in Kleist's work. Heinrich von
Kleist is renowned as an author who posed a radical challenge to
the orthodoxies of his age. Today, his works are frequently seen to
relentlessly deconstruct the paradigms of Idealism and to reflect a
Romantic, even postmodern, perspective on the ambiguities of the
world. Such a view fails, however, to do full justice to the more
complex manner in which Kleist articulates the tensions between the
securities of Enlightenment thought and the anxieties of the
revolutionary age. Steven Howe offers a new angle on Kleist's
dialogue with the Enlightenment by reconsidering his investment in
the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Where previous critics
have trivialized this as intense but fleeting and born of personal
identification, Howe here establishes Rousseau's importance as a
lasting source of inspiration for the violent constellations of
Kleist's fiction. Taking account of both Rousseau'scritique of
modernity and his later propositions for working toward the
Enlightenment promise of emancipation, the book locates a mode of
discourse which, placed in the historical context of the French
Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, sheds new light on the political
and ethical issues at play in Kleist's work. Steven Howe is
Associate Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK. He is
co-editor, with Ricarda Schmidt and Sean Allan, of Heinrich von
Kleist: Konstruktive und Destruktive Funktionen von Gewalt
(forthcoming, 2012).
A growing number of historians, political commentators, and cultural critics have sought to analyse Ireland's past and present in colonial terms. For some, including Irish Republicans, it is the only proper framework for understanding Ireland. Others reject the very use of the colonial label for Ireland's history; while using the term for the present can arouse outrage, especially amongst Ulster Unionists. This book evaluates and analyses these controversies, which range from debates over the ancient and medieval past to those in current literary and postcolonial theory. Scholarly, at times polemical, it is the most comprehensive study of these themes ever to appear. It will undoubtedly arouse sharp controversy.
In this provocative study, Stephen Howe traces the sources and
ancestries of the Afrocentric movement, and closely analyses the
writings of its leading proponents. Hard-hitting yet subtle and
scholarly in its appraisal of Afrocentric ideas, and based on
wide-ranging research in the histories both of Afro-America and of
Africa itself, Afrocentrism not only demolishes the mythical
"history" taught by black ultra-nationalists but suggests paths
towards a true historical consciousness of Africa and its diaspora.
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