By words alone : the Holocaust in literature /
The creative literature that evolved from the Holocaust constitutes an unprecedented encounter between art and life. Those who wrote about the Holocaust were forced to extend the limits of their imaginations to encompass unspeakably violent extremes of human behavior. The result, as Ezrahi shows in...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©1980.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Foreword by Alfred Kazin; Acknowledgments; ONE Introduction; TWO Documentation as Art; THREE "Concentrationary Realism" and the Landscape of Death; FOUR Literature of Survival; FIVE The Holocaust as a Jewish Tragedy 1: The Legacy of Lamentations; SIX The Holocaust as a Jewish Tragedy 2: The Covenantal Context; SEVEN The Holocaust Mythologized; EIGHT History Imagined: The Holocaust in American Literature; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography.