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Atempause and Atemschaukel: The Post-War Periods of Primo Levi and Herta Müller

  • Tim Albrecht (author)
Chapter of: Rumba under Fire: The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi(pp. 79–99)

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TitleAtempause and Atemschaukel
SubtitleThe Post-War Periods of Primo Levi and Herta Müller
ContributorTim Albrecht (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0134.1.08
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/rumba-under-fire/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightAlbrecht, Tim
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2016-02-29
Long abstractWhen we speak of historical periods, we imagine stretches of linear time, separated by significant historical events. Yet the term “period” implied a circular structure when Thrasyma-chus introduced it into rhetoric in the fifth century BC, long before it became a heuristic tool for historiography.1 In rheto-ric, the period is a stylistic device, a particular type of sen-tence with a hypotactic structure characterized by a rhythm of tension and release: the first part of the period (protasis) builds anticipation, the second part (apodosis) offers resolu-tion. Thrasymachus coined the term in analogy to athletics: Peri-hódos (“circular course”) signifies the racetrack of the ancient stadion. The circular syntactic structure creates the impression of wholeness and completion. Just as the athlete in the stadium strives for physical perfection, the periodic sentence strives for linguistic perfection, marked by the per-fect union of rhetoric and logic
Page rangepp. 79–99
Print length21 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)