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008			140804s2014 nyu o 00 0 eng d
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020			_z9780801453601 (cloth : alk. paper)
020			_z9780801479632 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020			_z0801453607
035			_a(OCoLC)901048278
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
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050	0	4	_aD804.3 _b.B66 2014
082	0		_a940.53/180943 _223
100	1		_aBoos, Sonja, _d1972- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aSpeaking the Unspeakable in Postwar Germany _bToward a Public Discourse on the Holocaust / _cSonja Boos.
264		1	_bCornell University Library,
264		3	_bProject MUSE,
300			_a1 online resource (pages cm.)
490	0		_aSignale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction : 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).
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
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"-- _cPublisher's Web site.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		0	_aPublic opinion _zGermany (West)
650		0	_aSpeeches, addresses, etc., German _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) _xPublic opinion.
650		0	_aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) _xInfluence.
651		0	_aGermany (West) _xIntellectual life.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aSignale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/36907/
945			_aProject MUSE - 2015 History
945			_aProject MUSE - 2015 Jewish Studies
945			_aProject MUSE - 2015 Complete
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