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The conflagration of community : fiction before and after Auschwitz /

"After Auschwitz to write even a single poem is barbaric." The Conflagration of Community challenges Theodor Adorno's famous statement about aesthetic production after the Holocaust, arguing for the possibility of literature to bear witness to extreme collective and personal experienc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miller, J. Hillis (Joseph Hillis), 1928-2021
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Theories of community. Nancy contra Stevens
  • pt. 2. Franz Kafka: premonitions of Auschwitz. Foreshadowings of Auschwitz in Kafka's writings
  • The breakdown of community and the disabling of speech acts in Kafka's The trial
  • The Castle: no Mitsein, no verifiable interpretation
  • pt. 3. Holocaust novels. Prologue: Community in fiction after Auschwitz
  • Three novels about the Shoah
  • Imre Kertész's Fatelessness: fiction as testimony
  • pt. 4. Fiction after Auschwitz. Morrison's Beloved
  • Coda
  • Notes
  • Index of names, titles of works, and characters.