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.
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.
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