Language of Ruin and Consumption : On Lamenting and Complaining /: On Lamenting and Complaining. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Juliane Prade-Weiss.
• Authors: Prade-Weiss, Juliane
• Contents: AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Getting a HearingConsuming Structures of LanguageLamenting in TheoryTerms of PlaintThe Coming Chapters1. Understanding Plaintive Language: FreudComplaint without a Cause: Treating Hysteria and Forgetting Laments in ModernityComplaining and Wish-FulfillmentIdiom of Plaint: The 'Wolf Man's' SpeechMourning, Melancholia, and ConsumptionMetabolism of Plaintive Language 2. Ritual and Modernity: On Silencing Laments (with Aeschylus, Rilke, and Veteranyi)Tale of Lament's Life and DeathPatterns of Looking at Ritual Plaints'The Dead Are Hungry': Metaphor and LiminalityAntiphony: Response and DissentTa(l)king Revenge: No End to Lamentation3. Voicing Pain and Destruction: Wittgenstein and ScholemNaming and Claiming PainKnowing and Doubting PainComplaint by ResponseA Nasty Move: Silencing PlaintsRelationality and SymbolLamenting Tradition4. Lament of Nature: Benjamin, with HerderTrauerspiel and Tragedy: 'the ear for lament'Benjamin's 'Nature'Language as Such, and Terminology: Looking AwayVanishing from HistoryLament and Theory, Once Again5. (No Way) From Complaining to Legal Action: Kafka'with every complaint understanding [subsides]'Understanding, Comprehension, Sympathy, and InconsolabilityComplaints, Vanishing into Juridical ActionRepresentation and BetrayalPolitics of Outcry: Claiming JusticeConclusion: Transgenerational Trauma and the Inability to LamentBibliographyIndex.
• Publisher Details: New York : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (296 pages)
• Subjects: Literary theory; Literary studies: from c 1900; Literary Criticism -- European -- German; Philosophy of language
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781501344206
• Related ISBNs: 150134420X; 9781501344190
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