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The Pragmatics of Literary Testimony: Authenticity Effects in German Social Autobiographies

The Pragmatics of Literary Testimony: Authenticity Effects in German Social Autobiographies

Warner, Chantelle

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics, Book 4

Biographies GeneralLiterary CriticismLinguistics

ISBN10: 041550130X
ISBN13: 9780415501309
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 8 2012
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In this book, Warner examines a number of German-language literary autobiographies that are connected to diverse social movements of the last forty years. These books have all received critical attention from the popular press, topped bestseller lists, and have been pivotal in discussions of authenticity, subjectivity, and referentiality. Because of the thematic diversity of these works, scholars within literary and cultural studies have tended to treat them separately under topical categories, such as women's literature, the post-war generation, migration and multiculturalism, etc. Underlying Warner's analysis is the belief that the social construction of autobiographical acts is as much a matter of textuality as it is of topicality i.e., how language means, rather than what it means, and that a pragmatic-stylistic approach is well-suited to describing how literary autobiographies come to function as testimonies to certain collective experiences.

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