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Memory and mastery : Primo Levi as writer and witness /

Eleven essays representing diverse approaches--literary, psychoanalytic, linguistic, and historical--focus on all aspects of Italian writer and Holocaust survivor Levi's oeuvre, including his science-fiction writings and his poetry, as well as his fictional and nonfictional writings about the H...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kremer, Roberta S., 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2001.
Colección:SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Matter
  • Half Title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I
  • The Haunted Journey of Primo Levi
  • Primo Levi and His Concept of Time: Time of the Gun, Time of the Spirit
  • The Rhetoric of the Univers Concentrationnaire
  • Part II: Levi and Science
  • Primo Levi's Science as 'Evil Nurse': The Lesson of Inversion
  • Moral Snares and Parables: Between Science Fiction and Midrash
  • Part III: Levi's Poetry
  • At an Uncertain Hour: The Other Side of Primo Levi
  • Part IV: Levi and Language
  • On Language and Violence.
  • On Language and Personhood: A Linguistic Odyssey
  • Part V: Levi's Legacy
  • Bridging the Narrative and Visual: Primo Levi as a Source of Inspiration for Contemporary Artists
  • The Duty and Risk of Testimony: Primo Levi as Keeper of Memory
  • Legacy in Gray
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography of Selected Works by and About Primo Levi
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Back Cover.