Tyrants Writing Poetry /

Tyrants Writing Poetry / / ed. by Konstantin Kaminskij, Albrecht Koschorke.

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Why do tyrants - of all people - often have poetic aspirations? Where do terror and prose meet? This book contains nine case studies that compare the cultural history of totalitarian regimes. The essays focus not on the arts, literature or architecture but on the phenomenon that many of history'...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2017
MitwirkendeR:
Dobrenko, Evgeny,
Gotter, Ulrich,
James, Richard,
Kaminskij, Konstantin,
Kim, Suk,
Koschorke, Albrecht,
Lohmann, Heiner,
Müller, Burkhard,
Nicolosi, Riccardo,
Pohl, Karl,
Žižek, Slavojž,
HerausgeberIn:
Kaminskij, Konstantin,
Koschorke, Albrecht,
Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (286 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Contributors
  • The Tyrant with His Back to the Wall: Nero’s Artistic Self-Expansion
  • Benito Mussolini: “Babeuf ” (1902)
  • Poetry and Tyranny: The Case of Benito Mussolini
  • Joseph Stalin: “Over This Land” (1895)
  • Stalin’s Writing: From the Romantic Poetry of the Future to the Socialist Realist Prose of the Past
  • Adolf Hitler: Excerpt from Mein Kampf (1924)
  • Ideology in Execution: On Hitler’s Mein Kampf
  • Kim Il-sung: “Poem Dedicated to Comrade Kim Jong-il on His 50th Birthday” (1992)
  • Dead Father’s Living Body: Kim Il-sung’s Seed Theory and North Korean Arts
  • Mao Zedong: “Snow” (1936)
  • Mao Zedong’s Poetry: Form as Statement
  • Muammar al-Gaddafi: Excerpt from “Escape to Hell” (1993)
  • A Poor Despot Descends to Hell: On the Writing and Thinking Styles of Muammar al-Gaddafi
  • Saddam Hussein: “Unbind It” (2007)
  • The Principle of Single-Handed Tyranny: On Saddam Hussein’s Literary Works
  • Saparmyrat Niyazov: “You Are Turkmen” (2001)
  • Saparmyrat Niyazov’s Ruhnama: The Invention of Turkmenistan
  • Radovan Karadžić: “Sarajevo” (1971)
  • “Nothing Is Forbidden in My Faith”: The Metamorphoses of Radovan Karadžić
  • List of Contributors

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