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9780230553286

Burning Books

by Fishburn, Matthew
  • ISBN13:

    9780230553286

  • ISBN10:

    0230553281

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-06-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

MATTHEW FISHBURN is a researcher at Macquarie University in Australia. He previously taught at the University of Sydney and the University of Western Australia. He is currently working on a proposed collection of images of aircrew chalking messages on bombs and another work on the German naturalist Georg Forster. This is his first book.

Table of Contents

The Fear of Books
A Sordid, Unhappy Sport
The Burning of the Books
The Library of the Burned Books
To Hell with Culture
Books and the Home Front
Beauty for Ashes
The End of Book Burning
The Path of Cinders
The Fear of Books
A Sordid, Unhappy Sport
The Burning of the Books
The Library of the Burned Books
To Hell with Culture
Books and the Home Front
Beauty for Ashes
The End of Book Burning
The Path of Cinders
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