Pathos and Anti-Pathos : Ruptured Affections in the Writing of the Shoah.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Vanassche, Tom.

Series:

Media and Cultural Memory / Medien und Kulturelle Erinnerung

Media and Cultural Memory / Medien und Kulturelle Erinnerung ; v.36

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (390 pages)

Other Title:

Pathos and Anti-Pathos

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2022.

Summary:

This interdisciplinary series addresses the relation between media and cultural memory. Its publications study how media construct, store, and disseminate memory. The series' focus is on different media and technologies, such as text and image, the cinema and the new digital media, on transmediality, intermediality, and remediation, as well as on the social (and increasingly transnational and transcultural) contexts of mediated memory. The aim of the series is to provide a vibrant international platform for research and scholarly exchange in the field of media and memory studies. Manuscripts submitted to the series are peer reviewed by expert referees.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of abbreviations

A note on translations and transliterations

Introduction: Setting the stage

1 The pathos of anti-pathos

2 Describing emotions: Metaphorical oppositions and their ambiguities

Part One: Pathos and anti-pathos and the ‘risks’ of encyclopaedic and documentary fiction

Introduction

3 W. G. Sebald: Melancholia, nostalgia and the pathos of empathy

4 Dieter Schlesak: The pathos of anti-pathos and the pathos of the ‘real’ in testimony and in the documentary tradition

Part Two: The survivors’ pathos of anti-pathos: Autobiography and historiography

5 Ruth Klüger: An (ant)agonistic pathos of anti-pathos

6 Raul Hilberg: The historian’s affective self-control

In lieu of a conclusion. Summary and further questions

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Diss. Universität Freiburg 2021.

ISBN:

3-11-075858-X