Explores one of the major issues in Holocaust studies - the intersection of memory and ethics in artistic expression, particularly within literature. This work examines the shifting cultural contexts for Holocaust representation and reveals how writers articulate the shadowy borderline between fact and fiction, and between event and expression.
Explores one of the major issues in Holocaust studies - the intersection of memory and ethics in artistic expression, particularly within literature. This work examines the shifting cultural contexts for Holocaust representation and reveals how writers articulate the shadowy borderline between fact and fiction, and between event and expression.
R. Clifton Spargo is an associate professor of English at Marquette University. He is the author of Vigilant Memory: Emmanuel Levinas, the Holocaust, and the Unjust Death and The Ethics of Mourning: Grief and Responsibility in Elegiac Literature. Robert M. Ehrenreich is the director of the university programs division of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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Preface Introduction Part One. Is the Holocaust Still to Be Written? The Holocaust, History Writing, and the Role of Fiction Nostalgia and the Holocaust Death in Language Oskar Rosenfeld and Historiographic Realism (including Sex, Shit, and Status) Part Two. A Question for Aesthetics? Nazi Aesthetics in Historical Context Writing Ruins "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem" Part Three. Does Culture Influence Memory? The Holocaust and the Economy of Memory, from Bellow to Morrison (The Technique of Figurative Allegory) "And in the Distance You Hear Music, a Band Playing" Reading Heart of Darkness after the Holocaust Theorizing the Perpetrator in Bernhard Schlink's The Reader and Martin Amis's Time's Arrow
Preface Introduction Part One. Is the Holocaust Still to Be Written? The Holocaust, History Writing, and the Role of Fiction Nostalgia and the Holocaust Death in Language Oskar Rosenfeld and Historiographic Realism (including Sex, Shit, and Status) Part Two. A Question for Aesthetics? Nazi Aesthetics in Historical Context Writing Ruins "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem" Part Three. Does Culture Influence Memory? The Holocaust and the Economy of Memory, from Bellow to Morrison (The Technique of Figurative Allegory) "And in the Distance You Hear Music, a Band Playing" Reading Heart of Darkness after the Holocaust Theorizing the Perpetrator in Bernhard Schlink's The Reader and Martin Amis's Time's Arrow
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