Political Memoirs and Negative Rhetoric: Kurt Waldheim's in the Eye of the Storm and Im Glaspalast der Weltpolitik

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Mar 2002 English Publisher:Project MUSEJournal:Biography, volume 25, pages 343-362 (eissn: 1529-1456,

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Authors: Jacqueline Vansant;

doi: 10.1353/bio.2002.0033

Political Memoirs and Negative Rhetoric: Kurt Waldheim's in the Eye of the Storm and Im Glaspalast der Weltpolitik

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This article explores the influence of audience in shaping the political memoir, and examines the memoir as a rhetorical act. A comparison of the English and German versions of Waldheim's memoirs suggests a concern for differing audience perceptions of National Socialism, and an analysis of Waldheim's rhetorical stances and narrative strategies expose a negative rhetoric which simplifies historical complexities.

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