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Romanticism after Auschwitz

Romanticism After Auschwitz reveals how one of the most insistently anti-romantic discourses, post-Holocaust testimony, remains romantic, and proceeds to show how this insight compels a thorough rethinking of romanticism.
Print Book, English, 2007
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiii, 364 s.
9780804755245, 0804755248
1102485624
Introduction: the rhetoric of survival
Romanticism, testimony, prosopopoeia
Naked language, naked life: Wordsworth's rhetoric of survival
Testimony and trope in Frankenstein
Anthropomorphizing the human
The rhetoric of wakefulness
Breath, today: Celan's translation of Shakespeare's sonnet
The remains of figure: Nuit et brouillard, nacht und nebel
Ending in romanticism
Originally presented as the author's Ph.D. thesis (University of California, Berkeley, 2001) under title: Surviving figures : romantic rhetoric and post-Holocaust writing
:Content:Acknowledgments iii @toc2:Introduction: The Rhetoric of Survival 1 1. Romanticism, Testimony, Prosopopoeia 000 2. Naked Language, Naked Life: Wordsworth's Rhetoric of Survival 000 3. Testimony and Trope in Frankenstein 000 4. Anthropomorphizing the Human 000 5. The Rhetoric of Wakefulness 000 6. Breath, Today: Celan's Translation of Shakespeare's Sonnet 71 000 7. The Remains of Figure: Nuit et Brouillard, Nacht und Nebel 000 Ending in Romanticism 000 :Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Index