Totalitarian speech

✍ Scribed by Głowiński, Michał

• Publisher: Peter Lang Edition
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 353
• Series: Studien zur Kulturellen und Literarischen Kommunismusforschung Band 1
• Edition: Peter Lang edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Totalitarian Speech brings together a range of texts on totalitarian manipulations of language. The author analyzes various phenomena, from the hateful rhetoric of Nazi Germany to the obfuscating newspeak of communist Poland, finding certain common characteristics. Above all, totalitarian speech in its diverse manifestations imposes an all-embracing worldview and an associated set of dichotomous divisions from an omniscient and authoritative perspective. This volume collects the work of over three decades, including essays written during the communist era and more recent pieces assessing the legacy of totalitarian ways of thinking in contemporary Poland

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover
Table of contents
Introduction: The Critic's Revenge. Stanley Bill
Part I
1. Narration as Dramatic Monologue
2. A Portrait of Marcolf
3. Socialist Parnassianism
4. Polish Literature on the Holocaust
5. Through the Eyes of the Executioner
6. Narrative, Newspeak, Totalitarian Form
Part II
7. On Totalitarian Discourse
8. "Don't Let the Past Run Wild":
9. Stalin the Magician
10. Russian, German, Jew
11. Talking Like Them
12. Styles of Being, Styles of Speech
13. An Account of the Papal Visit
14. Instigators
15. Ulysses' Day
16. Three Days with Nasz Dziennik. 17. The Crisis in Patriotic DiscoursePart III
18. Characteristics of Anti-Semitic Discourse
19. The Poetics of a Political Forgery
20. Always the Same
21. The Case of Jan Dobraczyński.

✦ Subjects

Discourse analysis -- Political aspects. Totalitarianism. Public speaking -- Political aspects. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General.