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

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

Scholarship often presumes that texts written about the Shoah, either by those directly involved in it or those writing its history, must always bear witness to the affective aftermath of the event, the lingering emotional effects of suffering. Drawing on the History of Emotions and on trauma theory...

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Vanassche, Tom,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Media and Cultural Memory / Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung , 36
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XII, 375 p.)
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Table of 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
  • Introduction
  • 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

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