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New literary and linguistic perspectives on the German language, National Socialism, and the Shoah / edited by Peter Davies and Andrea Hammel.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Edinburgh German yearbook ; volume 5.
- Edinburgh German yearbook ; volume 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National socialism in literature.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
- German literature--History and criticism.
- German literature.
- Austrian literature--History and criticism.
- Austrian literature.
- Swiss literature (German)--History and criticism.
- Swiss literature (German).
- National socialism.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 250 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume provides new perspectives on the relationship - or the perceived relationship - between the German language and the causes, nature, and legacy of National Socialism and the Shoah.
- Contents:
- Frontcover; Contents; Introduction: The German Language, National Socialism, and the Shoah; German Language and National Socialism Today: Still a German "Sonderweg"?; Clear Wording or "Historical" Euphemisms? Conceptual Controversies Surrounding the Naming of National Socialist Memorial Sites in Germany; The Language of the Perpetrators; "Lieber, guter Onkel Hitler": A Linguistic Analysis of the Letter as a National Socialist Text-Type and a Re-evaluation of the "Sprache im/des Nationalsozialismus" Debate
- "German was heard so often in our Dutch home": German Nazi Refugees in the Netherlands and Their Ambivalent Relationship with Their Mother Tongue"Whose text is it anyway?" Influences on a Refugee Memoir; Stigma and Performance: Victor Klemperer's Language-Critical Reflections on Anti-Semitic Hate Speech; Literary Language; Reinventing Invented Tradition: Vergangenheitsbewältigung and the Literature of Melancholy; "Even the word 'und' has to be re-invented somehow": Quoting the Language of the Perpetrators in Texts by Anne Duden
- "Reden ist Silber, Schweigen ist Gold": German as a Site of Fascist Nostalgia and Romanian as the Language of Dictatorship in the Work of Herta MüllerThe Power of Language and Silence: Reinhard Jirgl's Die Stille; Words and Music; "Disrupted Language, Disrupted Culture": Hanns Eisler's Hollywooder Liederbuch (1942-43); "and all of a sudden, in the middle of it, they began singing . . .": Languages and Commemoration in Arnold Schoenberg's Cantata A Survivor from Warsaw (Op. 46); Translation
- Understanding a Perpetrator in Translation: Presenting Rudolf Höß, Commandant of Auschwitz, to Readers of EnglishTranslating Testimony: Jakob Littner's Typescript and the Versions of Wolfgang Koeppen and Kurt Nathan Grübler
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2014.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on February 28, 2023).
- ISBN:
- 1-78204-464-7
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