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245 10 a| Speaking the unspeakable in postwar Germanyh| [electronic resource] :b| toward a public discourse on the Holocaust /c| Sonja Boos.;

260 a| Ithaca, NY :b| Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library,c| 2014.;

300 a| x, 229 pages ;c| 23 cm.;

490 0 a| Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-224) and index.;

505 0 a| 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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520 a| "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"--c| Publisher's Web site.;

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Speaking the unspeakable in postwar Germany toward a public discourse on the Holocaust / Sonja Boos.

Author/creator	Boos, Sonja, 1972-
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2014.
Description	x, 229 pages ; 23 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Public opinion. Speeches, addresses, etc., German--History and criticism. Public opinion--Germany (West). Germany (West)--Intellectual life.

Series	Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought
Contents	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).
Abstract	"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"-- Publisher's Web site.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-224) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2014030965
ISBN	9780801453601 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780801479632 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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