Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. List of abbreviations XI
5. A note on translations and transliterations XIII
6. Introduction: Setting the stage
7. 1 The pathos of anti-pathos 1
8. 2 Describing emotions: Metaphorical oppositions and their ambiguities 50
9. Part One: Pathos and anti-pathos and the ‘risks’ of encyclopaedic and documentary fiction
10. Introduction 113
11. 3 W. G. Sebald: Melancholia, nostalgia and the pathos of empathy 114
12. 4 Dieter Schlesak: The pathos of anti-pathos and the pathos of the ‘real’ in testimony and in the documentary tradition 173
13. Part Two: The survivors’ pathos of anti-pathos: Autobiography and historiography
14. Introduction 233
15. 5 Ruth Klüger: An (ant)agonistic pathos of anti-pathos 236
16. 6 Raul Hilberg: The historian’s affective self-control 284
17. In lieu of a conclusion. Summary and further questions 330
18. Bibliography 343
19. Index 373