Subtitle:

Stalin From Below and From Above. Thanatological Representations ; Listy do władzy 1945-1989 : studia przypadków

Publisher:

Oficyna Wydawnicza ASPRA ; Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Description:

p. 117-136 ; Bibliography under articles. Index ; Summary in English. ; See also "Listy do władz centralnych w Polsce 1945–1989 (przewodnik)" = Letters to the Central Authorities in Poland, 1945–1989 (Guidebook): ; click here to follow the link

Type of object:

Book/Chapter

Abstract:

This paper aims at reconstructing the repertoire of rhetorical figures and tropes constituting funeral topics the death of Joseph Stalin. The sources to the reconstruction of this topics are of two kinds. On the one hand, the official messages from the government as relayed by the Polish Film Chronicle is analyzed as far as the visual, semiotic, narrative, and verbal content is concerned. On the other hand, the letters sent by individuals to the Radio Station serve as an object of literary and stylistic inquiry. Besides traditional panegyric figures of speech, the Film Chronicle applies some avant garde narrative techniques such as stream of consciousness. What can be surprising, the official report on Stalin’s death doesn’t seem to differ much in its emotional timbre from a private letter. Similar figures of speech are applied in both visual and textual messages.

Detailed Resource Type:

Chapter

Resource Identifier:

oai:rcin.org.pl:233647 ; 978-83-7545-933-3 ; 978-83-65880-51-2

Source:

IH PAN, call no. II.14637 ; IH PAN, call no. II.14636 Podr. ; click here to follow the link

Language:

pol ; eng

Language of abstract:

eng

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY-ND 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license, full text available at: ; -

Digitizing institution:

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of History PAS

Projects co-financed by:

National Science Center

Access:

Open