Burning Books
(Sprache: Englisch)
This provocative new work examines the years between the Nazi book fires and the publication of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (1953), a period when book burning captured the popular imagination. It explores how embedded the myths of book burning have become...
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This provocative new work examines the years between the Nazi book fires and the publication of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (1953), a period when book burning captured the popular imagination. It explores how embedded the myths of book burning have become in our cultural history, and illustrates the enduring appeal of a great cleansing bonfire.
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The Nazi burning of the books in 1933 was one of the most infamous political spectacles of the twentieth century. In Berlin and all over Germany, Nazi officials and students organized elaborate parades and bonfires to mark their embrace of Hitler's new government. Book burning has since become the symbol of any oppressive regime, and a modern taboo. As Heinrich Heine is often quoted: 'Where one burns books, one will soon burn people'. This original and provocative new work examines the impact of these fires, concentrating on the years between the Nazi outrages and the publication of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 in 1953, a period in which book burning took hold of the popular imagination. Much more than simply the study of a single shocking event, Burning Books explores how deeply embedded the myths of book burning have become in our cultural and literary history, and illustrates the enduring appeal of a great cleansing bonfire.
An engaging history of book burning and its cultural significance, focusing on the notorious Nazi burnings while exploring the broader history of the destruction of books by fire
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Burning Books “
List of Figures List of Plates Preface Acknowledgments Introduction The Fear of Books The Burning of the Books The Library of the Burned Books To Hell with Culture Swing, they're burning books Beauty for Ashes Funeral Pyres Postscript: The Path of Cinders Bibliography
Autoren-Porträt von Matthew Fishburn
MATTHEW FISHBURN is a bookseller with Hordern House Rare Books in Sydney, Australia. He has taught at the University of Sydney and the University of Western Sydney. Together with Mark Tewfik, he is currently working on a book investigating the grafitti written on bombs during the Second World War. This is his first book.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Matthew Fishburn
- 2008, 2008., 221 Seiten, Maße: 14,7 x 22,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN-10: 0230553281
- ISBN-13: 9780230553286
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „Burning Books “
'Matthew Fishburn offers an original and often disturbing perspective on a dark chapter in literary history. He has a genius for drawing unexpected connections and he writes with the kind of elegance that was long ago banished from most academic books.' - Professor Jonathan Rose, author of <EM>The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes</EM> and editor of <EM>The Holocaust and the Book</EM>'A fascinating chronicle. What makes <EM>Burning Books</EM> so impressive is the author's going well beyond the usual instances.' - John Sutherland, <EM>The Times</EM> 'The book is supported by an excellent bibliography and notes, and there is a fine selection of reproduced posters, cartoons and photographs which enhance the value of the text.' - John Crawford, <EM>Library and Information History</EM>
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