- Dept. of German Studies,
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James Hodkinson
University of Warwick, German Studies, Faculty Member
- Islamic Studies, German Studies, Travel Writing, Cosmopolitanism, Women and Gender Issues in Islam, German Romanticism, and 24 moreWomen's travel narratives, Austrian Literature, 19th Century German History, Islamic History, Edward Said, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Johann Gottfried Herder, Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis, Bernard Lewis, Ignaz Goldziher, Susannah Heschel, Hans Kung, Hermeneutics, History and Philosophy of the Human Sciences, Aesthetics, Philosophy Of Language, Semiotics, Early German Romanticism, The Philosophy of Wilhelm Dilthey, The Philosophy of Johann Gottfried Herder, Orientalism, Postcolonial Studies, and German literature of the Goethezeitedit
- Currently Reader in German Studies, I came to Warwick in September 2006 from Oxford Brookes University, where I had t... moreCurrently Reader in German Studies, I came to Warwick in September 2006 from Oxford Brookes University, where I had taught as a lecturer in German for two years. I have worked as a teaching fellow at the Universities of Dublin and Liverpool and as a lecturer in the School of European Studies at Cardiff University. I successfully completed a PGCE in Modern Language Learning.I was an AHRB scholar at Trinity College, Dublin, where I completed a PhD on the treatment of gender in the works of the German Romantic writer Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg, 1772-1801). My doctoral research also took me as a D.A.A.D scholar to the Universität Trier and I am a member of the Internationale Novalis Gesellschaft. A specialist in late-eighteenth and nineteenth-century literature and intellectual history, I have taught widely in the areas of German language and literature. Research Interests:* German Romanticism, its historical context, modern and postmodern receptions * Eighteenth and nineteenth century Germanophone paradigms of cultural differenceedit
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Paradox, Aphorism and Desire in Novalis and Derrida. By C K. (MHRA Texts and Dissertations, ) London: Maney. . vii+ pp. £. ISBN . e s saw a trend in Novalis scholarship towards equating the... more
Paradox, Aphorism and Desire in Novalis and Derrida. By C K. (MHRA Texts and Dissertations, ) London: Maney. . vii+ pp. £. ISBN . e s saw a trend in Novalis scholarship towards equating the poet's ...
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This paper examines two works of contemporary art, a sculpture-cum-civic monument and a sound installation, which respond to Goethe’s Divan. The discussion combines a critical review of the political climate within which the works were... more
This paper examines two works of contemporary art, a sculpture-cum-civic monument and a sound installation, which respond to Goethe’s Divan. The discussion combines a critical review of the political climate within which the works were conceived with original interviews with the artists to offer close analysis of the works. I evaluate the relative impact that the Divan and scholarship on it had upon the two works. I further ask whether the artists and their sponsors felt compelled to downplay more contentious themes found in that legacy, given the ideal of intercivilizational dialogue so prominent in the discourses of German-Iranian cultural diplomacy. The paper offsets this critical reading, however, by highlighting the quite sophisticated treatments of occidental-oriental relations achieved by both works within their respective media.
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Book synopsis: The concept and study of orientalism in Western culture gained a changed understanding from Edward Said's now iconic 1978 book Orientalism. Especially in Germany, however, recent debate has moved beyond Said's... more
Book synopsis: The concept and study of orientalism in Western culture gained a changed understanding from Edward Said's now iconic 1978 book Orientalism. Especially in Germany, however, recent debate has moved beyond Said's definition of the phenomenon, highlighting the multiple forms of orientalism within the "West," the manifold presence of the "East" in the Western world, indeed the epistemological fragility of the ideas of "Occident" and "Orient" as such. This volume focuses on the deployment -- here the cultural, philosophical, political, and scholarly uses -- of "orientalism" in the German-speaking and Central and Eastern European worlds from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Its interdisciplinary approach combines distinguished contributions by Indian scholars, who approach the topic of orientalism through the prism of German studies as practiced in Asia, with representative chapters by senior German, Austrian, and English-speaking scholars working at the intersection of German and oriental studies.
Research Interests: Languages, History, Sociology, Philosophy, Communication, and 15 moreGlobalization, Literature, Hegel, Language, Space, Translation, Self, German, French, Orientalism, Cultural, Difference, Cultures, Deployment, and Oriental
Book synopsis: The concept and study of orientalism in Western culture gained a changed understanding from Edward Said's now iconic 1978 book Orientalism. Especially in Germany, however, recent debate has moved beyond Said's... more
Book synopsis: The concept and study of orientalism in Western culture gained a changed understanding from Edward Said's now iconic 1978 book Orientalism. Especially in Germany, however, recent debate has moved beyond Said's definition of the phenomenon, highlighting the multiple forms of orientalism within the "West," the manifold presence of the "East" in the Western world, indeed the epistemological fragility of the ideas of "Occident" and "Orient" as such. This volume focuses on the deployment -- here the cultural, philosophical, political, and scholarly uses -- of "orientalism" in the German-speaking and Central and Eastern European worlds from the late eighteenth century to the present day. Its interdisciplinary approach combines distinguished contributions by Indian scholars, who approach the topic of orientalism through the prism of German studies as practiced in Asia, with representative chapters by senior German, Austrian, and English-speaking scholars working at the intersection of German and oriental studies.
Research Interests: Languages, History, German Literature, Art History, Literature, and 15 moreEnglish, Culture, Hegel, Language, Hegemony, German, French, Aristocracy, Middle Ages, Classical, Bengali, Cultures, Deployment, Cal, and Central
I had hoped that under your auspices something better might have come into being. It is most dangerous for a woman to write, even more dangerous for her to publish an almanac of muses. [Ich hatte gehofft, unter Ihren Auspizien würde etwas... more
I had hoped that under your auspices something better might have come into being. It is most dangerous for a woman to write, even more dangerous for her to publish an almanac of muses. [Ich hatte gehofft, unter Ihren Auspizien würde etwas besseres zustande kommen. ...
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This article examines the return of the dead to life in two television drama series of the last decade, Les Revenants (The Returned; 2012–15, Canal) and Glitch (2015–19, ABC Studios). The returning dead do not figure as classic undead... more
This article examines the return of the dead to life in two television drama series of the last decade, Les Revenants (The Returned; 2012–15, Canal) and Glitch (2015–19, ABC Studios). The returning dead do not figure as classic undead figures, as ghosts or zombies, instead returning to life exactly as they were at the point of death and in search of a renewed purpose and an ultimate destiny. This, the article suggests, can constitute a form of latter-day resurrection. The article shows how both series present established religion as incapable of recognizing the return of the dead, while science and the secular state are also never wholly able to explain and manage these apparent miracles. The return of this seemingly religious trope to an ostensibly secular world and the mutual jostling and overlapping of theological, scientific, and aesthetic discourses, as they seek to represent and explain the mystery, not only constitutes a postsecular theme but also occasions the search, at tim...
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Research Interests: Geography, Globalization, Literature, English, Culture, and 15 moreMysticism, Language, Hegemony, Empire, German, Monarchy, French, Cultural, Aristocracy, Difference, Jewish, Classical, Cultures, Deployment, and Nazis
... James Hodkinson wishes to extend thanks to the Directorate of the Topkapi Palace Museum, Istanbul, for granting the rights to reproduce the image on the front cover of this volume and toKadriye Özbiyik in particular for her assistance... more
... James Hodkinson wishes to extend thanks to the Directorate of the Topkapi Palace Museum, Istanbul, for granting the rights to reproduce the image on the front cover of this volume and toKadriye Özbiyik in particular for her assistance in this matter. Dr. Karin Yeúilada ...
Research Interests: Islam, Language, Ethnicity, Judaism, Middle East, and 4 moreRace, Voice, Orient, and Medieval Period
... James Hodkinson wishes to extend thanks to the Directorate of the Topkapi Palace Museum, Istanbul, for granting the rights to reproduce the image on the front cover of this volume and toKadriye Özbiyik in particular for her assistance... more
... James Hodkinson wishes to extend thanks to the Directorate of the Topkapi Palace Museum, Istanbul, for granting the rights to reproduce the image on the front cover of this volume and toKadriye Özbiyik in particular for her assistance in this matter. Dr. Karin Yeúilada ...
Research Interests: Islam, Language, Ethnicity, Judaism, Middle East, and 4 moreRace, Voice, Orient, and Medieval Period
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... tradition of cosmopolitan thought stretches from the philosophy of antiquity to contemporary thinkers such as Ulrich Beck and Kwame Anthony Appiah.17 The idea was re-awoken with particular efficacy in modern German thought ...
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Novalis und das Weibliche: Das ist ein Thema, das sich auf mehrfache Weise erörtern lässt. Zum einen lassen sich anhand von Hardenbergs auto-biographischen Schriften seine Beziehungen zu den Frauen seines Lebens zu der Mutter, Auguste... more
Novalis und das Weibliche: Das ist ein Thema, das sich auf mehrfache Weise erörtern lässt. Zum einen lassen sich anhand von Hardenbergs auto-biographischen Schriften seine Beziehungen zu den Frauen seines Lebens zu der Mutter, Auguste Bernhardine, zur Verlobten Julie ...
Research Interests: Geography, Human Geography, English, Language, Hegemony, and 15 moreEmpire, German, French, Cultural, Difference, Nazism, Middle Ages, Orient, Cultures, Contamination, Harem, Deployment, Nazis, Oriental, and DIE
The literary canon of the eighteenth century has long been thought of as terrain dominated by men and largely inaccessible to women. On the one hand, works by male writers portrayed femininity in a manner that expressed the... more
The literary canon of the eighteenth century has long been thought of as terrain dominated by men and largely inaccessible to women. On the one hand, works by male writers portrayed femininity in a manner that expressed the author's constructions of femininity and failed, therefore, to ...
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... James Hodkinson wishes to extend thanks to the Directorate of the Topkapi Palace Museum, Istanbul, for granting the rights to reproduce the image on the front cover of this volume and toKadriye Özbiyik in particular for her assistance... more
... James Hodkinson wishes to extend thanks to the Directorate of the Topkapi Palace Museum, Istanbul, for granting the rights to reproduce the image on the front cover of this volume and toKadriye Özbiyik in particular for her assistance in this matter. Dr. Karin Yeúilada ...