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A Companion to the Works of Heinrich von Kleist
  • With contributions by Sean Allan , Bernhard Greiner , Jost Hermand , Tim Mehigan , Jeffery L. Sammons , Helmut J. Schneider , Hinrich C. Seeba , Anthony Stephens , Bianca Theisen and Susanne Zantop
  • Edited by Bernd Fischer
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    27 April 2017
    Print publication:
    03 May 2003
  • For over 150 years, Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) has been one of the most widely read and performed German authors. His status in the literary canon is firmly established, but he has always been one of Germany's most contentiously discussed authors. Today's critical debate on his unique prose narratives and dramas is as heated as ever. Many critics regard Kleist as a lone presager of the aesthetics and philosophies of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century modernism. Yet there can be no question that he responds in his works and letters to the philosophical, aesthetic, and political debates of his time. During the last thirty years, the scholarship on Kleist's work and life has departed from the existentialist wave of the 1950s and early 1960s and opened up new avenues for comingto terms with his unusual talent. The present volume brings together the most important and innovative of these newer scholarly approaches: the essays include critically informed, up-to-date interpretations of Kleist's most-discussed stories and dramas. Other contributions analyze Kleist's literary means and styles and their theoretical underpinnings. They include articles on Kleist's narrative and theatrical technique, poetic and aesthetic theory, philosophical and political thought, and insights from new biographical research.

    Contributors: Jeffrey L. Sammons, Jost Hermand, Anthony Stephens, Bianca Theisen, Hinrich C. Seeba, Bernhard Greiner, Helmut J. Schneider, Tim Mehigan, Susanne Zantop, Hilda M. Brown, and Seán Allan.

    Bernd Fischer is Professor of German andHead of the Department of German at Ohio State University.

A World at Total War
  • Global Conflict and the Politics of Destruction, 1937–1945
  • Edited by Roger Chickering, Stig Förster, Bernd Greiner
  • Published online:
    05 January 2013
    Print publication:
    20 December 2004
  • This volume presents the results of a fifth and final conference on the history of total war. It is devoted to the Second World War, which many scholars regard as the paradigmatic instance of total war. In considering the validity of this proposition, the authors address a broad range of analytical problems that this vast conflict posed in the arenas of Europe and Asia. They analyze modes of combat, war aims, the mobilization of economies and societies, occupation regimes, the vulnerability of noncombatants, and the legal and moral issues raised by the industrialized warfare of the mid-twentieth century. The volume will be of interest to all students of war and society in the modern era.

  • 13 - The Spirit of St. Louis: Mobilizing American Politics and Society, 1937-1945

  • Edited by Roger Chickering, Georgetown University, Washington DC, Stig Förster, Universität Bern, Switzerland, Bernd Greiner, Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung
  • Book:
    A World at Total War
    Published online:
    05 January 2013
    Print publication:
    20 December 2004, pp 245-258

  • Summary

    The war will last a hundred years - five years of fighting and ninety-five of winding up the barbed wire.

    American doughboys' joke in 1918

    Even for a place like the Coliseum, it was an unusual day. A heavy stench of gun smoke lingered over the arena for hours, while hundreds of troops fired their rifles and cannons, exploded mines, launched rockets, were ordered over the top, retreated, dug into foxholes, and tied the enemy down in surprise pincer movements, before at long last the Star Spangled Banner flew in victory. The calendar gave no reason for martial celebration - no anniversary or holiday - nor did the latest news. The war was dragging on. Politicians and military leaders admitted that the worst of the fighting with Germany and Japan was yet to come.

    By any standard, November 1943 seemed a strange time to stage a sham battle, and the Los Angeles Coliseum no less a strange location. Nevertheless, the City Council remained determined. Since the early 1940s, billions of defense dollars had flowed into California's shipyards and its nascent high-tech industries. Manpower recruitment for the shipyards, however, was badly behind schedule. Filling the vacancies promised victory in the war and a bright economic future. These goals justified a public-relations spectacle, a multidimensional battle event, live on stage.

  • 12 - “The Study of the Distant Past Is Futile”: American Reflections on New Military Frontiers

  • Edited by Roger Chickering, Georgetown University, Washington DC, Stig Forster, Universität Bern, Switzerland
  • Book:
    The Shadows of Total War
    Published online:
    05 January 2013
    Print publication:
    16 January 2003, pp 239-252

  • Summary

    Never in all the world's history has the likes of the present culture developed. . . . The study of the distant past is futile; the answer is not there. . . . Once wars were won by defeating an army. The next war may be won by destroying the people that furnish the army. . . . Surely the enemy will strike not the fortified position but the basis of the whole army - industry and the people. . . . It is more than useless to decry the terrible casualties that aircraft will cause among noncombatants. That feeling comes from the day when warfare had a certain honor, even dignity. Today it has little: tomorrow none. . . . Consequently, our future conflicts will likely be wars of extermination. . . . The human has at hand weapons of immense destructive power; no philosophy or decency to stop him from using them.

    In July 1939 Major J. Halpin Connolly offered this vision of the next war in the pages of the Infantry Journal, one of the preeminent American military periodicals. Like the Field Artillery Journal, the Military Review (published by the Command and General Staff School in Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas), and the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, the Infantry Journal was a product of the services' professionalization in the 1920s. Amid the financial pressures of the Great Depression, the Infantry Journal, Coast Artillery Journal, and the Cavalry Journal pooled articles to ensure a wider circulation. By the late 1930s the Infantry Journal had become a forum for broad-minded, seminal thought that prompted the others to improve the quality of their content. Even though it did not entirely mature in this role, it came close to offering an “all-Army forum” open to the other services as well, particularly to the air corps, which was still affiliated with the Army.