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Speaking the unspeakable in postwar Germany :

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0801471958

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0801479630

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9780801471957

(Number (ISBN

9780801479632

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0801453607

Erroneous ISBN

9780801453601

Erroneous ISBN

9780801479632

Title Proper

Speaking the unspeakable in postwar Germany :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

toward a public discourse on the Holocaust /

First Statement of Responsibility

Sonja Boos.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Ithaca, NY :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cornell University Library,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2014.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (x, 229 pages)

Series Title

Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Introduction : an Archimedean podium -- Martin Buber -- Paul Celan -- Ingeborg Bachmann -- Hannah Arendt -- Uwe Johnson -- Peter Szondi -- Peter Weiss -- Conclusion : speaking of the noose in the country of the hangman (Theodor W. Adorno).

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"An interdisciplinary study of a diverse set of public speeches given by major literary and cultural figures in the 1950s and 1960s. Through close readings of canonical speeches by Hannah Arendt, Theodor W. Adorno, Ingeborg Bachmann, Martin Buber, Paul Celan, Uwe Johnson, Peter Szondi, and Peter Weiss, Sonja Boos demonstrates that these speakers both facilitated and subverted the construction of a public discourse about the Holocaust in postwar West Germany. The author's analysis of original audio recordings of the speech events (several of which will be available on a companion website) improves our understanding of the spoken, performative dimension of public speeches. While emphasizing the social constructedness of discourse, experience, and identity, Boos does not neglect the pragmatic conditions of aesthetic and intellectual production--most notably, the felt need to respond to the breach in tradition caused by the Holocaust. The book thereby illuminates the process by which a set of writers and intellectuals, instead of trying to mend what they perceived as a radical break in historical continuity or corroborating the myth of a "new beginning," searched for ways to make this historical rupture rhetorically and semantically discernible and literally audible"--

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JSTOR

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22573/ctt9xz44k

Title

Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany : Toward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust.

International Standard Book Number

9780801479632

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)-- Influence.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)-- Public opinion.

Public opinion-- Germany (West)

Speeches, addresses, etc., German-- History and criticism.

HISTORY-- Europe-- Western.

HISTORY-- Holocaust.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Intellectual life.

Public opinion.

Speeches, addresses, etc., German.

Germany (West), Intellectual life.

Germany (West)

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HIS014000

HIS043000

LAN015000

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Edition

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Book number

Boos, Sonja,1972-

Date of Transaction

20200822130758.0

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[Book]

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