Description: Further DetailsTitle: Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar GermanyCondition: NewSubtitle: Toward a Public Discourse on the HolocaustISBN-10: 0801453607EAN: 9780801453601ISBN: 9780801453601Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell University LibraryFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 12/12/2014Description: Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany is 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. Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany emphasizes the social constructedness of discourse, experience, and identity, but 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 21mmItem Weight: 28gAuthor: Sonja BoosGenre: HistoryBook Series: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and ThoughtTopic: Military HistoryRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany
Title: Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany
Subtitle: Toward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust
ISBN-10: 0801453607
EAN: 9780801453601
ISBN: 9780801453601
Release Date: 12/12/2014
Release Year: 2014
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
Book Title: Speaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany : Toward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust
Number of Pages: 248 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Item Height: 0.9 in
Topic: Speeches, Holocaust, Europe / Germany, Jewish Studies
Publication Year: 2014
Genre: Social Science, Literary Collections, History
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Sonja Boos
Book Series: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
