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Rethinking Metonymy

Literary Theory and Poetic Practice from Pindar to Jakobson

By: Sebastian Matzner

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Rethinking Metonymy

Literary Theory and Poetic Practice from Pindar to Jakobson

By: Sebastian Matzner

Although metonymy has long been recognized as being a central device in poetic language, it has received little critical attention in its own right. Not only has this created a gap in literary analytical scholarship which needs to be addressed, but it has also allowed for problematic appropriations of metonymy as a critical concept now widely in use in structuralist studies across the humanities. Rethinking Metonymy is the first monograph to confront and resolve these issues. It advances the theory of poetic language by developing a ground-breaking new definition of metonymy on the basis of an evaluation of examples in Greek tragedy and lyric poetry, considering these in conjunction with examples from classicizing and Romantic German poetry for the purposes of illustration and comparison, including works by Goethe, Schiller, and Hölderlin. In addition to establishing the fundamental principle, different conformations, and aesthetic effects of this important poetic device, the volume also demonstrates how the new arguments it offers have the potential to set an agenda for far-reaching reconsiderations in literary studies and beyond. It mobilizes analytical insights into the inner workings of metonymy by examining three case studies designed to explore the trope in critical practice, covering its role in creating a 'hellenizing' style, what happens to it in 'classic' German translations of Aeschylus' Agamemnon, and critically re-assessing its modern re-appropriations as a structural-semiotic paradigm. Connecting classical perspectives with modern linguistic and literary theory, Rethinking Metonymy is a compelling and authoritative analysis that rehabilitates and brings much-needed clarity to an oft-neglected literary device. Its combination of in-depth engagement with classical literature and cross-cultural and cross-linguistic comparison makes it an invaluable resource not only to specialists in Greek poetry, but also to students and scholars engaged in literary analysis, translation criticism, and structuralist studies across a much wider range of disciplines.

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Oxford University Press

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0191088536

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Europe United

Power Politics and the Making of the European Community

By: Sebastian Rosato

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Europe United

Power Politics and the Making of the European Community

By: Sebastian Rosato

The construction of the European Community (EC) has widely been understood as the product of either economic self-interest or dissatisfaction with the nation-state system. In Europe United, Sebastian Rosato challenges these conventional explanations, arguing that the Community came into being because of balance of power concerns. France and the Federal Republic of Germany—the two key protagonists in the story—established the EC at the height of the cold war as a means to balance against the Soviet Union and one another. More generally, Rosato argues that international institutions, whether military or economic, largely reflect the balance of power. In his view, states establish institutions in order to maintain or increase their share of world power, and the shape of those institutions reflects the wishes of their most powerful members. Rosato applies this balance of power theory of cooperation to several other cooperative ventures since 1789, including various alliances and trade pacts, the unifications of Italy and Germany, and the founding of the United States. Rosato concludes by arguing that the demise of the Soviet Union has deprived the EC of its fundamental purpose. As a result, further moves toward political and military integration are improbable, and the economic community is likely to unravel to the point where it becomes a shadow of its former self.

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Cornell University Press

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0801461464

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9780801461460

The Connectivity of Things

Network Cultures since 1832

By: Sebastian Giessmann

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The Connectivity of Things

Network Cultures since 1832

By: Sebastian Giessmann

A media history of the material and infrastructural features of networking practices, a German classic translated for the first time into English. Nets hold, connect, and catch. They ensnare, bind, and entangle. Our social networks owe their name to a conceivably strange and ambivalent object. But how did the net get into the network? And how can it reasonably represent the connectedness of people, things, institutions, signs, infrastructures, and even nature? The Connectivity of Things by Sebastian Giessmann, the first media history that addresses the overwhelming diversity of networks, attempts to answer all these questions and more. Reconstructing the decisive moments in which networking turned into a veritable cultural technique, Giessmann takes readers below the street to the Parisian sewers and to the Suez Canal, into the telephone exchanges of Northeast America, and on to the London Underground. His brilliant history explains why social networks were discovered late, how the rapid rise of mathematical network theory was able to take place, how improbable the invention of the internet was, and even what diagrams and conspiracy theories have to do with it all. A primer on networking as a cultural technique, this translated German classic explains everything one ever could wish to know about networks.

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MIT Press

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0262550741

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9780262550741

James Fenimore Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans - Eine Frontier Novel

By: Sebastian Selle

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James Fenimore Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans - Eine Frontier Novel

By: Sebastian Selle

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Literatur, Note: 2,0, Friedrich-Alexander-Universit t Erlangen-N rnberg (Anglistik und Amerikanistik), Veranstaltung: PS Native Americans in Film and Fiction, 15 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: 1. Einleitung In dieser Arbeit m chte ich aufzeigen, inwieweit Coopers Roman, The Last of the Mohicans (1826), als Darstellung der amerikanischen Frontier zu interpretieren ist. Es soll dargestellt werden, wie der Autor mit der Figur des Hawkeye einen Charakter geschaffen hat, der den notwendigen Prozess der Anpassung an die Umwelt des nordamerikanischen Kontinents erfolgreich meistert. Er kann deshalb auch als idealer Frontiersman, als Beispiel des neuen Menschen, des neuen Amerikaners betrachtet werden (Fussel, 68). Ausgehend von der evolutionistischen Frontier Theorie eines Frederick Jackson Turners, m chte ich beweisen, dass Natty Bumppo, aufgrund seines erfolgreiches Leben in der Wildnis der amerikanischen Frontierregion, als Wegbereiter der entstehenden amerikanischen Nation angesehen werden kann (Clarke, 29). Mit der Analyse des Charakters Major Duncan Heyward soll anschlie end der starke Kontrast zwischen Hawkeye und den anderen Mitgliedern der wei en Rasse demonstriert werden. Er ist einerseits ein Repr sentant der im Verfall begriffenen europ ischen Hegemonialm chte. Deshalb fehlen ihm, im Gegensatz zu Natty Bumppo, die n tigen F higkeiten und Kenntnisse um an der Frontier zu bestehen (Fussell, 40). Andererseits steht er aber auch f r die Zukunft der wei en Zivilisation. Eine Zukunft, die aber nur durch Pioniere wie Hawkeye, realisiert werden kann. Neben der Analyse der handelnden Personen im Kontext der Frontier Theorie, m chte ich auch die literarische Darstellung dieser Region in Coopers The Last of the Mohicans untersuchen.

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GRIN Verlag

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3638769518

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Rethinking Metonymy

Rethinking Metonymy

Europe United

Europe United

The Connectivity of Things

The Connectivity of Things

James Fenimore Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans - Eine Frontier Novel

James Fenimore Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans - Eine Frontier Novel

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