The Power of the Word: Hitler as Double Coin in Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief
| dc.contributor.author | Bouchra YOUSFI, Rihab OGBI | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-12-13T08:11:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-12-13T08:11:08Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Our world comes to witness a new concept of power away from its tangible and solid form; a power that is indoctrinated in the name of words. Even the controversial character of Adolf Hitler who seems to be as a redeemed subject, his name is linked to evil, and proves to reveal renewed denotations. The fact that a single man could gather the minds of a nation in one melting crucible using his speeches to store contagion among masses, lead us to question the existing relation between language and thought, and how language could consequently affect psychology. Moreover, considering the nature of language and how it could be a means of manipulation evokes an interrogation mark about the stability language. In this context and since literature pictorializes to a certain degree reality, Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief' will be analyzed to examine the aforementioned assumptions regarding Hitler as a double coin in this dystopian work of fiction. Therefore, to analyze the case study in hands from different angles, a plethora of literary theories would be used starting from Psychoanalysis, New Historicism with Michel Foucault's theory the Panopticism, and Deconstruction. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.univ-msila.dz/handle/123456789/22079 | |
| dc.subject | Keywords: Language, Power, Hitler, Crowd, Fictional-Narrating, Death, Deconstructive, psychoanalysis, New Historicism, Gustave Le Bon. | en_US |
| dc.title | The Power of the Word: Hitler as Double Coin in Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |