Physical Description
xiii, 364 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Introduction : the rhetoric of survival
Romanticism, testimony, prosopopoeia
Naked language, naked life : Wordsworth's rhetoric of survival
Testimony and trope in Frankenstein
Anthropomorphizing the human
The rhetoric of wakefulness
Breath, today : Celan's translation of Shakespeare's sonnet 71
The remains of figure : Nuit et brouillard, Nacht und Nebel
Ending in romanticism.
ISBN
9780804755245
0804755248 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes
Originally presented as the author's Ph.D. thesis (University of California, Berkeley, 2001) under title: Surviving figures : romantic rhetoric and post-Holocaust writing.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-345) and index.
Introduction : the rhetoric of survival -- Romanticism, testimony, prosopopoeia -- Naked language, naked life : Wordsworth's rhetoric of survival -- Testimony and trope in Frankenstein -- Anthropomorphizing the human -- The rhetoric of wakefulness -- Breath, today : Celan's translation of Shakespeare's sonnet 71 -- The remains of figure : Nuit et brouillard, Nacht und Nebel -- Ending in romanticism.
