Post-War Humor in the Upper-Division German Literature Classroom

2008 ◽  
Vol 39 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 55-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva-Maria Russo
Keyword(s):  
German Literature ◽  
Literature Classroom ◽  
Post War

The Language of Ideology: Lingual Manipulation of Readers in German Literature of the Third Reich

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Michael Press
Keyword(s):  
German Literature ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
National Socialist ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
The Third ◽  
Historical Argument ◽  
Underlying Basis ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
Post War ◽  
German People

In recognizing more than just hyperbole in their critical studies of National Socialist language, post-war philologists Viktor Klemperer (1946) and Eugen Seidel (1961) credit persuasive words and syntax with the expansion of Hitler's ideology among the German people. This popular explanation is being revisited by contemporary philologists, however, as new historical argument holds the functioning of the Third Reich to be anything but monolithic. An emerging scholarly consensus on the presence of more chaos than coherence in Nazi discourse suggests a new imperative for research. After reviewing the foundational works of Mein Kampf (1925) and Myth of the Twentieth Century (1930), the author confirms Klemperer and Seidel’s claim for linguistic manipulation in the rise of the National Socialist Party. Most importantly, this article provides a detailed explanation of how party leaders employed rhetorical language to promote fascist ideology without an underlying basis of logical argumentation.

Übersetzen als Entharmonisierungsstrategie

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 382-398
Author(s):  
Claus Telge
Keyword(s):  
German Literature ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Pablo Neruda ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Translation Strategy ◽  
Post War ◽  
Hans Magnus Enzensberger ◽  
Formative Years

Abstract As a young poet, Hans Magnus Enzensberger sought to garner symbolic capital in the formative years of post-war German literature by translating Pablo Neruda. By arguing that Enzensberger uses a deharmonizing translation strategy to explore his distrust of metaphor, the article maps out coordinates for rethinking the complex relationship between Enzensberger’s poems and translations.

Empirical and Doctrinal Positivism in International Law (1974–75)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. H. Alexandrowicz
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
A Priori ◽  
German Literature ◽  
Power Politics ◽  
Western History ◽  
Law Of Nations ◽  
History Of ◽  
Asian History ◽  
Post War ◽  
German Historian

This chapter first considers the attacks levelled against nineteenth-century German historian Leopold Ranke in post-war German literature on Afro–Asian history (including the history of the law of nations). It then turns to the transformation of international law caused by the appearance or reappearance of the Afro–Asian States, arguing that doctrinal positivism must not be applied to such transformation. Positivism is by its nature empirical and should respect and follow the facts of international life without any a priori discrimination. Ranke and his followers were wrong in identifying Western history with universal history and classifying nations into those who make history and those who lack history. The pride of nations in their history must be mutually respected, the chapter states. This chapter argues that it will certainly take the sting of bitterness out of the colonial controversy, which is no more than an ordinary chapter of power politics.

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