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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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Abstract:
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 book examine the problems of representation in literature of these poignant and horrific events.
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