'Des deutschen Dichters Sendung': The Collective Symbolism and Rhetorical Structure of Political Religion in the Poetry of the Junge Mannschaft.

This research project aims to contribute to the understanding of the rhetorical structure and collective symbolism of political-religious discourse in the Nazi-biased poetry of the literary group Junge Mannschaft (1933-1945). This study combines a historical and a context-based approach to National Socialist poetry with a textanalytical one, through Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA).

Keywords:SYMBOLISM, NATIONAL SOCIALISM, GERMAN POETRY, THIRD REICH, POLITICAL RELIGION

Disciplines:Language studies, Literary studies, Theory and methodology of language studies, Theory and methodology of linguistics, Theory and methodology of literary studies, Other languages and literary studies