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Fridman Lea Wernick <1949-> |
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Titolo |
Words and witness : narrative and aesthetic strategies in the representation of the Holocaust / / Lea Wernick Fridman |
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Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2000 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (194 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature |
Jews - Persecutions |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-164) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Matter -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Content -- History, Fantasy, and Horror -- The Silence of Historical Traumatic Experience: Aharon Appelfeld's Badenheim 1939 -- Silence in Language and in History -- Historical Horror and the Literary Act of Witness: An Examination of Elie Wiesel's Night -- The Literary Act of Witness: Narrative, Voice, and the Problematic of the Real -- Concluding Thoughts and Promptings -- Back Matter -- Notes -- Works Consulted -- Index -- Back Cover. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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