The Pragmatics of Literary Testimony
Chantelle. Warner
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Hoboken : : Taylor and Francis, , 2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (227 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - The Pragmatics of Literary Testimony Authenticity Effects in German Social Autobiographies; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Autobiographical Style, Myth, and the Practice of Literary Testimony; 2 Exemplarity Effects: Feridun Zaimoğlu's Leyla as a Typical Turkish Tale; 3 Mimesis Effects: Styling Testimonial Voices; 4 Immediacy Effects: Deictic Shifts and Point of View in Verena Stefan's Shedding, Peter Handke's Hopeless Unhappiness, and Ruth Klüger's Still Alive. - 5 Narrativity Effects: How Bernward Vesper's The Trip Became an Exemplary Testimony to the German Autumn of 19776 Addressivity Effects: Facework and Deference in the Literary Testimonies of Chima Oji, Şinasi Dikmen, and Feridun Zaimoğlu; Epilogue: A Hunger for Experience; Notes; Bibliography; Index. - In this book, Warner examines a number of German-language literary autobiographies that are connected to diverse social movements of the last forty years. These books have all received critical attention from the popular press, topped bestseller lists, and have been pivotal in discussions of authenticity, subjectivity, and referentiality. Because of the thematic diversity of these works, scholars within literary and cultural studies have tended to treat them separately under topical categories, such as women's literature, the post-war generation, migration and multiculturalism, etc. Underly
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| ISBN | 9780415501309
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