Author: Ilse Aichinger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
"I now no longer use the better words." Ilse Aichinger (1921-2016) was one of the most important writers of postwar Austrian and German literature. Born in 1921 to a Jewish mother, she survived World War II in Vienna, while her twin sister Helga escaped with one of the last Kindertransporte to England in 1938. Many of their relatives were deported and murdered. Those losses make themselves felt throughout Aichinger's writing, which since her first and only novel, The Greater Hope, in 1948, has highlighted displacement, estrangement, and a sharp skepticism toward language. By 1976, when she published Bad Words in German, her writing had become powerfully poetic, dense, and experimental. This volume presents the whole of the original Bad Words in English for the first time, along with a selection of Aichinger's other short stories of the period; together, they demonstrate her courageous effort to create and deploy a language unmarred by misleading certainties, preconceived rules, or implicit ideologies.
Bad Words
Author: Ilse Aichinger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
"I now no longer use the better words." Ilse Aichinger (1921-2016) was one of the most important writers of postwar Austrian and German literature. Born in 1921 to a Jewish mother, she survived World War II in Vienna, while her twin sister Helga escaped with one of the last Kindertransporte to England in 1938. Many of their relatives were deported and murdered. Those losses make themselves felt throughout Aichinger's writing, which since her first and only novel, The Greater Hope, in 1948, has highlighted displacement, estrangement, and a sharp skepticism toward language. By 1976, when she published Bad Words in German, her writing had become powerfully poetic, dense, and experimental. This volume presents the whole of the original Bad Words in English for the first time, along with a selection of Aichinger's other short stories of the period; together, they demonstrate her courageous effort to create and deploy a language unmarred by misleading certainties, preconceived rules, or implicit ideologies.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
"I now no longer use the better words." Ilse Aichinger (1921-2016) was one of the most important writers of postwar Austrian and German literature. Born in 1921 to a Jewish mother, she survived World War II in Vienna, while her twin sister Helga escaped with one of the last Kindertransporte to England in 1938. Many of their relatives were deported and murdered. Those losses make themselves felt throughout Aichinger's writing, which since her first and only novel, The Greater Hope, in 1948, has highlighted displacement, estrangement, and a sharp skepticism toward language. By 1976, when she published Bad Words in German, her writing had become powerfully poetic, dense, and experimental. This volume presents the whole of the original Bad Words in English for the first time, along with a selection of Aichinger's other short stories of the period; together, they demonstrate her courageous effort to create and deploy a language unmarred by misleading certainties, preconceived rules, or implicit ideologies.
Dissertation Abstracts International
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ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Ilse Aichinger: "Die Größere Hoffnung"
Author: Gail Wiltshire
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783826059216
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783826059216
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The Bound Man, and Other Stories
Author: Ilse Aichinger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1664
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1664
Book Description
Women without a Past?
Author: Joanne Sayner
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9401204594
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Who remembers, and how? Debates about the role of memory as history – and of literature as memory – have increasingly come to fascinate those interested in how we look at our pasts as a means for understanding the present. Women without a Past? brings together for the first time autobiographies written by seven women who experienced Nazism from different perspectives: Elfriede Brüning, Hilde Huppert, Greta Kuckhoff, Elisabeth Langgässer, Melita Maschmann, Inge Scholl, and Grete Weil. Their autobiographies provoke diverse and challenging answers to questions about who remembers what, when, where, how and on behalf of whom. This book foregrounds the positive political potential of re-reading well-known texts and seeking out reasons why others have been marginalized. It examines autobiography as a form of writing at the very centre of contemporary debates on the ‘self’, ‘truth’ and ‘history’. Women without a Past? offers new insights into the politics of memory and autobiography, and will be of particular interest to researchers and students engaging with women’s writing and memories of Nazism.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9401204594
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Who remembers, and how? Debates about the role of memory as history – and of literature as memory – have increasingly come to fascinate those interested in how we look at our pasts as a means for understanding the present. Women without a Past? brings together for the first time autobiographies written by seven women who experienced Nazism from different perspectives: Elfriede Brüning, Hilde Huppert, Greta Kuckhoff, Elisabeth Langgässer, Melita Maschmann, Inge Scholl, and Grete Weil. Their autobiographies provoke diverse and challenging answers to questions about who remembers what, when, where, how and on behalf of whom. This book foregrounds the positive political potential of re-reading well-known texts and seeking out reasons why others have been marginalized. It examines autobiography as a form of writing at the very centre of contemporary debates on the ‘self’, ‘truth’ and ‘history’. Women without a Past? offers new insights into the politics of memory and autobiography, and will be of particular interest to researchers and students engaging with women’s writing and memories of Nazism.
A Spatial Reading of Ilse Aichinger's Novel ;Die größere Hoffnung'
Author: Gail Wiltshire
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783826057076
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783826057076
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Translating Holocaust Literature
Author: Peter O. Arnds
Publisher: V&R Unipress
ISBN: 9783847105015
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In his testimony on his survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi said "our language lacks words to express this offense, the demolition of a man." If language, if any language, lacks the words to express the experience of the concentration camps, how does one write the unspeakable? How can it then be translated? The limits of representation and translation seem to be closely linked when it comes to writing about the Holocaust--whether as fiction, memoir, testimony--a phenomenon the current study examines. While there is a spate of literature about the impossibility to represent the Holocaust, not much has been written on the links between translation in its specific linguistic sense, translation studies, and the Holocaust, a niche this volume aims to fill.
Publisher: V&R Unipress
ISBN: 9783847105015
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In his testimony on his survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi said "our language lacks words to express this offense, the demolition of a man." If language, if any language, lacks the words to express the experience of the concentration camps, how does one write the unspeakable? How can it then be translated? The limits of representation and translation seem to be closely linked when it comes to writing about the Holocaust--whether as fiction, memoir, testimony--a phenomenon the current study examines. While there is a spate of literature about the impossibility to represent the Holocaust, not much has been written on the links between translation in its specific linguistic sense, translation studies, and the Holocaust, a niche this volume aims to fill.
Dressed in Black
Author: Wayne Daly
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780956952462
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780956952462
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Elites and People
Author: Fredrik Engelstad
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1838679154
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This volume contains an Open Access chapter. The present volume of Comparative Social Research offers a broad set of comparative studies of elites, stretching from the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt to women's political leadership in Brazil and Germany, via attainment of elite positions among minorities in France and the US.
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1838679154
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This volume contains an Open Access chapter. The present volume of Comparative Social Research offers a broad set of comparative studies of elites, stretching from the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt to women's political leadership in Brazil and Germany, via attainment of elite positions among minorities in France and the US.