Language of Ruin and Consumption : On Lamenting and Complaining /: On Lamenting and Complaining. (2020)
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- Book
- Title:
- Language of Ruin and Consumption : On Lamenting and Complaining /: On Lamenting and Complaining. (2020)
- Main Title:
- Language of Ruin and Consumption : On Lamenting and Complaining
- 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
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