Traces of war : interpreting ethics and trauma in twentieth-century French writing /

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The legacy of the Second World War remains unsettled; no consensus has been achieved about its meaning and its lasting impact. This is pre-eminently the case in France, where the experience of defeat and occupation created the grounds for a deeply ambiguous mixture of resistance and collaboration, p...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Davis, Colin, 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2017.
Series:Contemporary French and francophone cultures.
Subjects:
1900-1999
French literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
World War, 1939-1945 > France > Literature and the war.
World War, 1939-1945 > France > Influence.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > France > Littérature et guerre.
Littérature française > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Literary studies: from c 1900.
Literary studies: general.
Literature and literary studies.
Literature: history and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
French literature
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
War and literature
Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) > France > Influence.
Litterature française > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) > Litterature et guerre > France.
France
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Section A: Ethics, Trauma and Interpretation
  • 1. Trauma and Ethics: Telling the Other's Story, p.11
  • 2. Traumatic Hermeneutics: Reading and Overreading the Pain of Others, p.29
  • Seetion B: Writing the War: Sartre, Beauvoir, Camus
  • 3. Sartre and Beauvoir: A Very Gentle Occupation?, p.49
  • 4. Camus's War: L'Etranger and Lettres a un ami alfemand, p.65
  • 5. Interpreting, Ethics and Witnessing in La Peste and La Chute, p.80
  • Seetion C: Prisoners of War Give Philosophy Lessons
  • 6. Life Stories: Riceeur, p.119
  • 7. Afterlives: Althusser and Levinas, p.134
  • 8. Levinas the Novelist, p.148
  • Seetion D: Surviving, Witnessing and Telling Tales
  • 9. Testimony/Literature/Fiction: Jorge Semprun, p.165
  • 10. Elie Wiesel: Witnessing, Telling and Knowing, p.193
  • II. Sarah Kofman and the Time Bomb of Memory, p.218
  • Condusion: Whose War, Which War?, p.234
  • Bibliography, p.239
  • Index, p.250.

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