The art of commemoration : fifty years after the Warsaw Uprising
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The art of commemoration : fifty years after the Warsaw Uprising
（Discourse approaches to politics, society and culture, v. 7）
J. Benjamins, c2003
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Description
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.
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: Eur ISBN 9789027226976
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 1. Preface
- 2. 1. Facing the past: The commemoration of the Warsaw Uprising on the occasion of its Fiftieth anniversary (by Ensink, Titus)
- 3. 2. A discourse analytic approach to the commemorative speeches about the Warsaw Uprising (by Ensink, Titus)
- 4. 3. The Messianic Warsaw: Mythological framings of political discourse in the address by Lech Walesa (by Galasinski, Dariusz)
- 5. 4. The search for acceptable perspectives: German President Roman Herzog commemorates the Warsaw Uprising (by Ensink, Titus)
- 6. 5. A politician's sociology: US Vice President Gore's categorisation of the participants in the Warsaw Uprising (by Mazeland, Harrie)
- 7. 6. Framing the past: An analysis of John Major's address (by Schaffner, Christina)
- 8. 7. From commemoration to self-celebration: Explorations in the interplay of discourse frames and political perspectives in the address by Rene Monory (by Torck, Daniele)
- 9. 8. How the Russians handled a problem: The Warsaw Uprising in Sergey Filatov's address (by Steinke, Klaus)
- 10. 9. Merging frames: A frame analysis of the South African, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand addresses (by Koole, A.J.)
- 11. 10. Pope John Paul II as a Polish Patriot: The Pope's letter in commemoration of the Warsaw Uprising (by Steinke, Klaus)
- 12. 11. The politics of public memory: The commemoration of the Second World War in a historical and comparative perspective (by Vree, Frank van)
- 13. Index
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