By words alone : the Holocaust in literature / / Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi ; with a foreword by Alfred Kazin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821001603321
• Autore: Ezrahi Sidra DeKoven
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1982, c1980
• ISBN: 1-282-53725-3; 9786612537257; 0-226-23337-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 262 pages)
• Disciplina: 809.93358; 809/.93358
• Soggetti: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature; Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism; Jewish literature - History and criticism
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- One. Introduction -- Two. Documentation as Art -- Three. "Concentrationary Realism" and the Landscape of Death -- Four. Literature of Survival -- Five. The Holocaust as a Jewish Tragedy 1: The Legacy of Lamentations -- Six. The Holocaust as a Jewish Tragedy 2: The Covenantal Context -- Seven. The Holocaust Mythologized -- Eight. History Imagined: The Holocaust in American Literature -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The creative literature that evolved from the Holocaust constitutes an unprecedented encounter between art and life. Those who wrote about the Holocaust were forced to extend the limits of their imaginations to encompass unspeakably violent extremes of human behavior. The result, as Ezrahi shows in By Words Alone, is a body of literature that transcends national and cultural boundaries and shares a spectrum of attitudes toward the concentration camps and the world beyond, toward the past and the future.