Edinburgh German Yearbook 8: New Literary and Linguistic Perspectives on the German Language, National Socialism, and the Shoah

There is seemingly no escaping the association of the language of Goethe with the language of Hitler: the two leaden clich s seem to be inseparable, suggesting a Sonderweg between enlightened sophistication and subtle beauty on the one hand and linguistic barbarism on the other. Victor Klemperer suggested that the Lingua Tertii Imperii was a perversion of German that needed to be purged from the language, but does the notion of "Nazi...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571135979
• ISBN13: 9781571135971
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"