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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819454903321

Autore

Orban Katalin

Titolo

Ethical diversions : the post-Holocaust narratives of Pynchon, Abish, DeLillo, and Spiegelman / / Katalin Orban

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-135-46639-4

0-415-86714-2

0-203-95832-2

1-135-46632-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 p.)

Collana

Literary criticism and cultural theory

Classificazione

18.06

Disciplina

813/.5409358

Soggetti

American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature

Judaism and literature - United States - History - 20th century

World War, 1939-1945 - United States - Literature and the war

Ethics in literature

Jews in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-205) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; From Difference to Marvelous Non-Indifference; Though this be Method, Yet there is Madness In't: Rethinking Reversibility; The Arrythmia of Narrative Performance: Frames, Doubles and Peripheral Visions; ""To Turn Toward the Disaster""; A Narrative Ethics?; Chapter One. ""Mauschwitz"": Monsters, Memory, and Testimony; Between Monsters and Monuments; Classified!-Enigmatic Afflictions and Synthesizing Pleasures; Figured by the Hybrid; Photography and the Face; Testifying for the Other

Chapter Two. Familiarity and Forgetfulness in Walter Abish's FictionLego Surprise: A Preamble on Terms of Familiarity; Abstract Speculations; Rivals and Remnants; Forgetfulness; The Holocaust Forgotten: Delillo's White Noise; Chapter Three. Pinpricks on the Ars(e) Narrandi: Liminality and Oven-Games in Gravitys Rainbow; The Nomadic ""Now"" of Delta-T; Preterite Subjectivity: Chosen, but not for



Enlightenment; Be Scattered, and Multiply; ""A Few Small Chances for Mercy""; Narrative Tactics (1)-""You are the Traveler's Aid""; Narrative Tactics (2)-The Strains of Peripheral Vision; Conclusion

NotesBiblography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.