Format:
1 online resource (258 pages)
ISBN:
9789027296030
Content:
The Art of Commemoration focuses on a particular historical event that illustrates how nations define their own identities and establish mutual relations in their discourse: the Warsaw Uprising of August 1944 and its Commemoration in 1994. This Commemoration was an innovative and unique form of transnational communication because it brought together representative speakers from all parties involved. They considered the commemorated event from different perspectives: the victim (Poland), the former enemy (Germany) and the former allies (England, USA, France and other countries, as well as Russia which liberated Poland but had not supported the Uprising). A letter from the Pope added a Catholic perspective. The 'art of commemoration' consists in invoking the past events from one's own perspective while simultaneously considering the other perspectives, as well as in making sense of the past and present at the same time. This volume analyses the artful way in which the speakers coped with these complexities in a full discourse analytic reconstruction of each address.
Content:
The Art of Commemoration -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Contents -- Preface -- Authors' addresses -- The Warsaw Uprising monument -- Chapter 1 Facing the past -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 A discourse analytic approach to the commemorative speeches about the Warsaw Uprising -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 The Messianic Warsaw -- Note -- References -- Appendix -- Chapter 4 The search for acceptable perspectives -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 A politician's sociology -- Notes -- References -- Appendix -- Chapter 6 Framing the past -- Notes -- References -- Appendix -- Chapter 7 From commemoration to self-celebration -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8 How the Russians handled a problem -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9 Merging frames -- References -- Appendix -- Chapter 10 Pope John Paul II as a Polish Patriot -- Notes -- Chapter 11 The politics of public memory -- Notes -- References -- Index -- The series DISCOURSE APPROACHES TO POLITICS, SOCIETY AND CULTURE (DAPSAC).
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789027226976
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789027226976
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=622245
