Elie Wiesel and the Art of Storytelling

Herausgeber: Horowitz, Rosemary

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Produktbeschreibung

Elie Wiesel is a rare master storyteller with the ability to use storytelling as a form of activism. This work contains an essay that examines Wiesel's roots in Jewish storytelling traditions; influence from religious, folk and secular sources; education; Yiddish back ground; Holocaust experience; and writing style.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland & Co Inc
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9780786428694
• ISBN-10: 0786428694
• Artikelnr.: 21042329

Autorenporträt

The late Rosemary Horowitz was a professor of English at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. She published extensively on Jewish topics.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Preface      
Introduction     
Mosaics and Mirrors: Wiesel, American Autobiographies, and the Shaping of a
Storied Subject     
Creative Ambiguity in Wiesel's Storytelling     
Elie Wiesel: Telling Stories of Children and Loss     
The Storyteller and His Quarrel with God     
Wrestling with Oblivion: Wiesel's Autobiographical Storytelling as
Midrash     
The Maggid of Sighet: Jewish Contexts for Wiesel's Storytelling     
Laughter and the Limits of Holocaust Storytelling: Wiesel's The Gates of
the Forest     
Transfiguration     
The Artist as Witness, Prophet, and Encourager     
Shaliach Tzibor: Wiesel as Storyteller of His People     
Teaching Beyond the Text: Examining and Acting On the Moral Aspects of
Night     
Afterword: Night-the Memoir-a Promise Fulfilled     
About the Contributors     
Index