LEADER 04045nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910452757803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-6776-4 010 $a0-8014-5197-3 010 $a0-8014-6777-2 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801467776 035 $a(CKB)2550000001039631 035 $a(OCoLC)840897779 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10685108 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000860346 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12383289 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000860346 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10898464 035 $a(PQKB)10180669 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138464 035 $a(DE-B1597)527083 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801467776 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138464 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10685108 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681674 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001039631 100 $a20121128d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHistory, literature, critical theory$b[electronic resource] /$fDominick LaCapra 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (248 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-50392-3 311 $a0-8014-7865-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. The Mutual Interrogation of History and Literature -- $t2. The Quest! The Quest! Conrad and Flaubert -- $t3. Coetzee, Sebald, and the Narrative of Trauma -- $t4. Historical and Literary Approaches to the "Final Solution": Saul Friedländer and Jonathan Littell -- $t5. The Literary, the Historical, and the Sacred: The Question of Nazism -- $tEpilogue Recent Figurations of Trauma and Violence: Tarrying with ?i?ek -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aIn 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." 606 $aFiction$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)$xHistoriography 606 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature 606 $aLiterature and history 606 $aLiterature, Modern$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aViolence in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFiction$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)$xHistoriography. 615 0$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and history. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aViolence in literature. 676 $a809 700 $aLaCapra$b Dominick$f1939-$0122081 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452757803321 996 $aHistory, literature, critical theory$92472022 997 $aUNINA