04011nam 2200709Ia 450 991077965110332120200520144314.00-8014-6776-40-8014-5197-30-8014-6777-210.7591/9780801467776(CKB)2550000001039631(OCoLC)840897779(CaPaEBR)ebrary10685108(SSID)ssj0000860346(PQKBManifestationID)12383289(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000860346(PQKBWorkID)10898464(PQKB)10180669(MiAaPQ)EBC3138464(DE-B1597)527083(DE-B1597)9780801467776(Au-PeEL)EBL3138464(CaPaEBR)ebr10685108(CaONFJC)MIL681674(EXLCZ)99255000000103963120121128d2013 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrHistory, literature, critical theory[electronic resource] /Dominick LaCapraIthaca Cornell University Pressc20131 online resource (248 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-322-50392-3 0-8014-7865-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Mutual Interrogation of History and Literature -- 2. The Quest! The Quest! Conrad and Flaubert -- 3. Coetzee, Sebald, and the Narrative of Trauma -- 4. Historical and Literary Approaches to the "Final Solution": Saul Friedländer and Jonathan Littell -- 5. The Literary, the Historical, and the Sacred: The Question of Nazism -- Epilogue Recent Figurations of Trauma and Violence: Tarrying with Žižek -- Notes -- IndexIn History, Literature, Critical Theory, Dominick LaCapra continues his exploration of the complex relations between history and literature, here considering history as both process and representation. A trio of chapters at the center of the volume concern the ways in which history and literature (particularly the novel) impact and question each other. In one of the chapters LaCapra revisits Gustave Flaubert, pairing him with Joseph Conrad. Other chapters pair J. M. Coetzee and W. G. Sebald, Jonathan Littell's novel, The Kindly Ones, and Saul Friedlander's two-volume, prizewinning history Nazi Germany and the Jews. A recurrent motif of the book is the role of the sacred, its problematic status in sacrifice, its virulent manifestation in social and political violence (notably the Nazi genocide), its role or transformations in literature and art, and its multivalent expressions in "postsecular" hopes, anxieties, and quests. LaCapra concludes the volume with an essay on the place of violence in the thought of Slavoj Zizek. In LaCapra's view Zizek's provocative thought "at times has uncanny echoes of earlier reflections on, or apologies for, political and seemingly regenerative, even sacralized violence."FictionHistory and criticismTheory, etcHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)HistoriographyHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literatureLiterature and historyLiterature, ModernHistory and criticismTheory, etcViolence in literatureFictionHistory and criticismTheory, etc.Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)Historiography.Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.Literature and history.Literature, ModernHistory and criticismTheory, etc.Violence in literature.809LaCapra Dominick1939-122081MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779651103321History, literature, critical theory3792371UNINA