Joseph Theodoor Leerssen

Ranging widely across countries and centuries, National Thought in Europe critically analyzes the growth of nationalism from its beginnings in medieval ethnic prejudice to the romantic era’s belief in a national soul. A fertile pan-European exchange of ideas, often rooted in literature, led to a notion of a nation’s cultural individuality that transformed the map of Europe. By looking deeply at the cultural contexts of nationalism, Joep Leerssen not only helps readers understand the continent’s past, but he also provides a surprising perspective on contemporary European identity politics.

A Cultural History

National Thought in Europe

Manfred Beller

How do national stereotypes emerge? To which extent are they determined by historical or ideological circumstances, or else by cultural, literary or discursive conventions? This first inclusive critical compendium on national characterizations and national (cultural or ethnic) stereotypes contains 120 articles by 73 contributors. Its three parts offer [1] a number of in-depth survey articles on ethnic and national images in European literatures and cultures over many centuries; [2] an encyclopedic survey of the stereotypes and characterizations traditionally ascribed to various ethnicities and nationalities; and [3] a conspectus of relevant concepts in various cultural fields and scholarly disciplines. The volume as a whole, as well as each of the articles, has extensive bibliographies for further critical reading. Imagologyis intended both for students and for senior scholars, facilitating not only a first acquaintance with the historical development, typology and poetics of national stereotypes, but also a deepening of our understanding and analytical perspective by interdisciplinary and comparative contextualization and extensive cross-referencing.

The Cultural Construction and Literary Representation of National Characters : a Critical Survey

Imagology

Menno Spiering

ISBN 9051839960 (paperback) NLG 30.00 From the contents: The serpent and the dove: political counsel in Machiavelli and Erasmus (Dominic Baker-Smith).- Le Machiavel de Rousseau: politique et religion (Annie Jourdan).- Machivelli and the German world (Dina Aristodemo).- Fortuna and the constitution (W.T. Eijsbouts).- Reputazione in Machiavelli's thought (Tiziano Perez). (Barbara Arizti Martin).

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Machiavelli

L. Jacobs

Johannes Christianus Gerardus Maria Jansen

The Three-country Area Maastricht/Heerlen, Hasselt/Genk, Aix-la-Chapelle, Liège

Historical Overview of the MHAL-area

Raymond Corbey

Selves and Others in Society and Scholarship

Alterity, Identity, Image

Lotte Eilskov Jensen

Marita Mathijsen

Ranging across different countries and cultural domains (museums, opera, literature, history-writing), this collection explores the romantic-historicist complexities at the root of the modern nation-state: how the past became both colourfully exotic and a matter of national identification and public interest.

Romanticism, Cultural Heritage and the Nation

Free Access to the Past

Bringing together sources from many countries and many centuries, this study critically analyses the growth of nationalism - from medieval ethnic prejudice to the Romantic belief in a nation’s “soul”. The belief and ideology of the nation’s cultural individuality emerged from a Europe-wide exchange of ideas, often articulated in literature and belles lettres. In the last two centuries, these ideas have transformed the map of Europe and the relations between people and government. Tracing the modern European nation-state as the outcome of a cultural self-invention, cross-nationally and historically, Leerssen also provides a new approach to Europe’s contemporary identity politics. This study of nationalism offers a startling new perspective on cultural and national identity. National Thought in Europe is the revised English-language edition of Nationaal denken in Europa. Een cultuurhistorische schets (AUP, 1999). For more information on the English and edited edition, see National thought in Europe

een cultuurhistorische schets

Nationaal denken in Europa

M. Speiring

Symbol and Representation

National Identity

Manet van Montfrans

Borders and Territories

Jürgen Barkhoff

"The articulation of collective identity by means of a stereotyped repertoire of exclusionary characterizations of Self and Other is one of the longest-standing literary traditions in Europe and as such has become part of a global modernity. Recently, this discourse of Othering and national stereotyping has gained fresh political virulence as a result of the rise of "Identity Politics". What is more, this newly politicized self/other discourse has affected Europe itself as that continent has been weathering a series of economic and political crises in recent years. The present volume traces the conjunction between cultural and literary traditions and contemporary ideologies during the crisis of European multilateralism. Contributors: Aelita Ambrulevičiūtė, Jürgen Barkhoff, Stefan Berger, Zrinka Blažević, Daniel Carey, Ana María Fraile, Wulf Kansteiner, Joep Leerssen, Hercules Millas, Zenonas Norkus, Aidan O'Malley, Raúl Sánchez Prieto, Karel Šima, Luc Van Doorslaer,Ruth Wodak"--

National Stereotyping, Identity Politics, European Crises

German Reflections

Lucas F. Bruyning

Italy - Europe

The aim of this investigation is to reconsider the cultural confrontation between England and Ireland from a new methodological perspective, and to trace how this confrontation resulted in a particular notion, literary as well as political, of Irish nationality.

Studies in the Idea of Irish Nationality, Its Development and Literary Expression Prior to the Nineteenth Century

Joseph Theodoor Leerssen

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