ISBN:
0810132354
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0810132370
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9780810132375
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9780810132351
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 417 Seiten
Year of publication:
2016
Series Statement:
Cultural expressions of World War II
DDC:
833.914
Keywords:
Adler, H. G Congresses
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Adler, H. G Congresses Criticism and interpretation
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature Congresses
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Konferenzschrift
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Adler, H. G. 1910-1988
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : encountering H.G. Adler / Julia Creet, Sara R. Horowitz, and Amira Bojadzija-DanPart one : Writing a life. The world of my father's memory writing : the Gesamtkunstwerk of H.G. Adler / Jeremy Adler -- The self positioned, the (de)posited self, the soul released : the uses of biography in H.G. Adler's Shoah trilogy / Peter Filkins -- Shaping survival through writing : H.G. Adler's correspondence with Bettina Gross, 1945-1947 / Sven Kramer -- Part two : Contexts. Recovered gems : neglect and recovery of Holocaust fiction / Sara R. Horowitz -- H.G. Adler and first-person history / Omer Bartov -- Holocaust fact and Holocaust fiction : the dual vision of H.G. Adler / Lawrence L. Langer -- Part three : fictions. From Panorama to The journey : repetition and intensification of traumatic memory / Amira Bojadzija-Dan -- Double exposure in the absence of verbs : repossessing the image of self in H.G. Adler's The journey / Emily Budick -- A dialectic of the deictic : pronouns and persons in H.G. Adler's The journey / Julia Creet -- "I have lost myself" : H.G. Adler's novel The wall and the damaged identity of the survivor / Ruth Vogel-Klein -- Part four : genres. Prague circles : H.G. Adler's Kafkaesque hope / Helen Finch -- "Die Grenzen des Sagbaren" : toward a political philology in H.G. Adler's Reflections on language / Lynn L. Wolff -- "Here I stand": the poetry of H.G. Adler / Katrin Kohl -- Part five : encounters. An imaginative dialogue between H.G. Adler and psychoanalysis : aesthetic themes of uncertainty, transformation, and binding / Deborah P. Britzman -- The archive and the image : H.G. Adler's snapshots of traumatic history / Dorota Glowacka -- Reading H.G. Adler (tangentially) / Leslie Morris -- Major works by H.G. Adler.
Note:
The essays in this volume developed from an international symposium, "H. G. Adler: 'Life, Literature, Legacy" convened at the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University University in Toronto, Canada, on November 11 and 12, 2012"--Acknowledgements
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