Waking the Dead: Correspondences Between Walter Benjamin's Concept of Remembrance and Ingeborg Bachmann's Ways of Dying

by Karen Remmler

Ingeborg Bachmann's late prose has often been read either as a representation of female experience in postwar Austria or as a commentary on the process of writing. This book offers a new reading by examining the relationship between historical experience and the structures of remembrance in Bachmann's Todesarten in the context of Walter Benjamin's approach to memory. Benjamin's notion of insightful remembering offers a conceptualization of remembrance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572410280
• ISBN13: 9781572410282
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Ariadne Press (CA)
• Length: 174 Pages