Witnessing, Memory, Poetics: H. G. Adler and W. G. Sebald - Couverture rigide

 
9781571135896: Witnessing, Memory, Poetics: H. G. Adler and W. G. Sebald
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1571135898 ISBN 13 : 9781571135896
Editeur : Camden House Inc, 2014

Synopsis

Since 1945, authors and scholars have intensely debated what form literary fiction about the Holocaust should take. The works of H. G. Adler (1910-1988) and W. G. Sebald (1944-2001), two modernist scholar-poets who settled in England but never met, present new ways of reconceptualizing the nature of witnessing, literary testimony, and the possibility of a "poetics" after Auschwitz. Adler, a Czech Jew who survived Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, was a prolific writer of prose and poetry, but his work remained little known until Sebald, possibly the most celebrated German writer of recent years, cited it in his 2001 work, Austerlitz. Since then, a rediscovery of Adler has been under way. This volume of essays by international experts on Adler and Sebald investigates the connections between the two writers to reveal a new hybrid paradigm of writing about the Holocaust that advances our understanding of the relationship between literature, historiography, and autobiography. In doing so, the volume also reflects on the wider literary-political implications of Holocaust representation, demonstrating the shifting norms in German-language "Holocaust literature."

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À propos de l?auteur

HELEN FINCH is Professor of German Literature at the University of Leeds.

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Éditeur
Camden House Inc
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1571135898
ISBN 13 
9781571135896
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
332
Éditeur
Finch Dr Helen, Wolff Lynn L.
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