Musical Biographies : : The Music of Memory in Post-1945 German Literature /

Musical Biographies : : The Music of Memory in Post-1945 German Literature / / Michal Ben-Horin.

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Since the second half of the twentieth century various routes, including history and literature, are offered in dealing with the catastrophe of World War II and the Holocaust. Historiographies and novels are of course written with words; how can they bear witness to and reverberate with traumatic ex...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1
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Ben-Horin, Michal,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies , 20
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 173 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Overture. German Catastrophe and the Rebirth of Musical Biography
  • 1. Thomas Mann: Dissonance as a Mode of Documentation
  • Interlude I. Siegfried: Atonality and Decentralized Narrative
  • 2. Günter Grass: Rhythms of a Fictitious Testimony
  • Interlude II. Clown: Ironic Tune between Memory and Oblivion
  • 3. Ingeborg Bachmann: The Resonance of Trauma
  • Interlude III. Pianist: Austria from a Musician’s Perspective
  • 4. Thomas Bernhard: Writing, Playing, and the Compulsion to Repeat
  • Interlude IV. Composer: Sound Transfiguration after Reunification
  • Coda. The End of Musical Biography?
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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