@article{945702,
      author = {Kraus, Karl, and Bridgham, Frederick George Thomas, and  Timms, Edward, and Perloff, Marjorie,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/945702},
      title = {The third Walpurgis Night : the complete text /},
      abstract = {"Now available in English for the first time, Austrian  satirist and polemicist Karl Kraus's Third Walpurgis Night  was written in immediate response to the Nazi seizure of  power in 1933 but withheld from publication for fear of  reprisals against Jews trapped in Germany. Acclaimed when  finally published by Kösel Verlag in 1952, it is a  devastatingly prescient exposure, giving special attention  to the regime's corruption of language as masterminded by  Joseph Goebbels. Bertolt Brecht wrote to Kraus that, in his  indictment of Nazism, "You have disclosed the atrocities of  intonation and created an ethics of language." This  masterful translation, by the prizewinning translators of  Kraus's The Last Days of Mankind, aims for clarity where  Kraus had good reason to be cautious and obscure"--},
      recid = {945702},
      pages = {1 online resource (xxv, 283 pages).},
}