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Title

Tyrants writing poetry / edited by Albrecht Koschorke and Konstantin Kaminskij.

Publication

Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2017.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kaminskij, Konstantin,
• Koschorke, Albrecht, 1958-

Subject

• Politics and literature
• Dictators in literature
• Sovereignty in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Translation of: Despoten dichten: Sprachkunst und Gewalt.

Contents

Introduction / Albrecht Koschorke and Konstantin Kaminskij -- The Tyrant with his Back to the Wall: Nero's Artistic Self-Expansion / Ulrich Gotter -- Benito Mussolini: "Babeuf" (1902) -- Poetry and Tyranny: The Case of Benito Mussolini / Richard Bosworth -- Joseph Stalin: "Over this Land" (1895) -- Stalin's Writing: From the Romantic Poetry of the Future to the Socialist Realist Prose of the Past / Evgeny Dobrenko -- Adolf Hitler: Excerpt from "My Struggle" (1924) -- Ideology in Execution: On Hitler's "Mein Kampf" / Albrecht Koschorke -- Kim Il-sung: "Poem Dedicated to Comrade Kim Jong-il in His 50th Birthday" (1992) -- Dead Father's Living Body: Kim Il-sung's Seed theory and the North Korean Arts / Suk-Young Kim -- Mao Zedong: "Snow" (1936) -- Mao Zedong's Poetry: Form as Statement / Karl-Heinz Pohl -- Muammar al-Gaddafi: Excerpt from "Escape to Hell" (1993) -- A Poor Despot Descends to Hell: On the Writing and Thinking Styles of Muammar al-Gaddafi / Heiner Lohmann -- Saddam Hussein: "Unbind it" (2007) -- The Principle of Single-Handed Tyranny: On Saddam Hussein's Literary Works / Burkhard Müller -- Saparmyrat Niyazov: "You are a Turkman" (2001) -- Saparmurat Niyazov's "Ruhnama": The Invention of Turkmenistan / Riccardo Nicolosi -- Radovan Karadžić: "Sarajevo" (1971) -- "Nothing is Forbidden in my Faith": The Metamorphoses of Radovan Karadžić / Slavoj Žižek.

ISBN

• 9789633862025
• 9633862027

LCCN

2016058122

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries