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The Holocaust and the text : speaking the unspeakable
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The Holocaust and the text : speaking the unspeakable

Author: Andrew N Leak; George Paizis
Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
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"The Holocaust is an event that refuses to stay in the past. By its nature it both defies and cries out for representation and interpretation; yet representation is at the same time necessarily reductive of the reality to which it refers. Yet however inadequate, representation, of one sort or another, is the only means we have to transmit and appropriate past human experience."--BOOK JACKET.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Andrew N Leak; George Paizis
ISBN: 0333738861 9780333738863 033373887X 9780333738870 031222866X 9780312228668
OCLC Number: 42027521
Notes: "In association with the Institute for Romance Studies and the Institute for English Studies, School of Advanced Study, the University of London, and the Wiener Library."
Description: ix, 196 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Holocaust genres and the turn to history / Berel Lang --
Holocaust writing in context: Italy 1945-47 / Robert S.C. Gordon --
Representations of the Holocaust in women's testimony / Anna Hardman --
Between repulsion and attraction: George Steiner's post-Holocaust fiction / Bryan Cheyette --
The Holocaust as seen through the eyes of children / Andrea Reiter --
From behind the bars of quotations marks: Emmanuel Levinas's (non)-representation of the Holocaust / Robert Eaglestone --
Idioms for the unrepresentable: postwar fiction and the Shoah / Ann Parry --
The Demidenko affair and contemporary Holocaust fiction / Sue Vice --
Is Aharon Appelfeld a Holocaust writer? / Leon I. Yudkin --
The mirror of memory: Patrick Modiano's La lace de l'étoile and Dora Brader / Samuel Khalifa --
'Il n'ya qu'une espèce humaine': between Duras and Antelme / Martin Crowley.
Responsibility: edited by Andrew Leak and George Paizis.
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The Holocaust is both a point of reference in the past and a point of moral interdiction and imperative in the present. Yet how is the modern reader to relate it to the present? The essays in this  Read more...

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