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In this discourse history, W J Dodd analyses the 'unquiet voices'
of opponents whose contemporary critiques of Nazism, from positions
of territorial and inner exile, focused on the 'language of
Nazism'. Individual chapters review 'precursor' discourses; Nazi
public discourse from 1933 to 1945; the testimonies of 'unquiet
voices' abroad, and in private and published texts in the 'Reich';
attempts to 'denazify the language' (1945-49), and the legacies of
the Nazi past in a retrospective discourse of 'coming to terms'
with the Nazi past. In the period from 1945, the book focuses on
contestations of 'tainted language' and instrumentalizations of the
Nazi past, and the persistence of linguistic taboos in contemporary
German usage. Highly engaging, with English translations provided
throughout, this book will provide an invaluable resource for
scholars of discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and German
history and culture; as well as readers with a general interest in
language and politics.
In this discourse history, W J Dodd analyses the 'unquiet voices'
of opponents whose contemporary critiques of Nazism, from positions
of territorial and inner exile, focused on the 'language of
Nazism'. Individual chapters review 'precursor' discourses; Nazi
public discourse from 1933 to 1945; the testimonies of 'unquiet
voices' abroad, and in private and published texts in the 'Reich';
attempts to 'denazify the language' (1945-49), and the legacies of
the Nazi past in a retrospective discourse of 'coming to terms'
with the Nazi past. In the period from 1945, the book focuses on
contestations of 'tainted language' and instrumentalizations of the
Nazi past, and the persistence of linguistic taboos in contemporary
German usage. Highly engaging, with English translations provided
throughout, this book will provide an invaluable resource for
scholars of discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and German
history and culture; as well as readers with a general interest in
language and politics.
This book evaluates the importance of Dostoyevsky's life and
imaginative fiction as a stimulus to Kafka's own writing.
Dostoyevskian material is situated within detailed readings of
particular works. The principle sources discussed are The Double,
Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, and Dostoyevsky's
(auto) biography. It is argued that Kafka's use of Dostoyevsky is
driven by antagonism as much as by admiration.
In this study of Kafka's encounter with Dostoyevsky, literary
historiography is embedded within the task of interpretation. In a
series of detailed readings of Kafka's works from "The Judgment" to
"The Trial" and other works from late 1914, a narrative unfolds of
Dostoyevsky being used both as a guide and a foil. Kafka's
appropriations of the Dostoyevskian world are traced from the
sympatheic emulations of the "poor folk" Dostoyevsky to
problematical and parodic refractions of Dostoyevsky's religious
universe.;Dostoyevsky's biography features as prominently here as
his literary work, and it is contended that Kafka's response is
driven not only by sympathy and empathy but also, and increasingly,
by a dissenting critique of Dostoyevskian idealism. Drawing on
contemporary sources and recent scholarly work, including the
historical-critical edition of "The Trial", this study insists on
the socio-political aspect of Kafka's fiction and examines the
tensions in Kafka's work between religious and secular
perspectives.
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