DEATH AS AN OCCASION TO CELEBRATE LIFE. COMMEMORATIVE SPEECHES AT FUNERALS OF SIBIU PERSONALITIES IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD
DEATH AS AN OCCASION TO CELEBRATE LIFE. COMMEMORATIVE SPEECHES AT FUNERALS OF SIBIU PERSONALITIES IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD

Summary/Abstract: Death as an Occasion to Celebrate Life. Commemorative Speeches at Funerals of Sibiu Personalities in the Interwar Period. The aim of this study is to unveil the emotional topographies stirred by burials of Sibiu personalities as they appear in memorial speeches and articles published in the interwar press of Sibiu. Following the research direction opened by Lucien Febvre we highlight the employed discursive strategies and techniques to trigger public’s emotion and sense of loss. The interwar press reports conferred a bigger dimension to leaders’ funerals, fuelling the collective emotion. Our case studies focus on the rhetoric of death at the burial of Saxon personalities Adolf Schullerus (1864-1928), Carl Wolff (1849-1929) and Friedrich Teutsch (1852-1933). Referring to some attitudes of public opinion in Transylvania we offer some details on the eulogies of some personalities involved in the emancipation process of Transylvanian Romanians, such as I. G. Duca and Vasile Goldiş.

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