Words and Witness: Narrative and Aesthetic Strategies in the Representation of the Holocaust - Couverture souple

Fridman, Lea Wernick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0791446107 ISBN 13 : 9780791446102

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2000

Synopsis

Connects Holocaust literature and film to other works of "historical horror" in order to examine the limits that trauma imposes upon literary and artistic expression.

Narratives of large-scale historical horror and trauma cross a terrible boundary in representation. What forms are adequate to such experience? What are the forms that such narratives actually take? Fridman is fascinated by the boundary that separates the representable from the unrepresentable and by the sense that literary works on either side of this boundary are governed by a different dynamic and set of rules from one another. Close readings of works by Aharon Appelfeld, Tadeusz Borowski, Paul Celan, Charlotte Delbo, Jerzy Kosinski, Claude Lanzmann, Dan Pagis, Piotr Rawicz, André Schwarz-Bart, and Elie Wiesel explore the inventive means by which these Holocaust writers wrestle with experiences that, in a very real sense, cannot be put into words. A new reading of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness sets the stage for comparative and far-reaching literary insights into the notion and conception of traumatic narrative.

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À propos de l?auteur

Lea Wernick Fridman is Assistant Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0791446107
• ISBN 13: 9780791446102
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 177
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible