LEADER 04032nam 22006255 450 001 9910627283103321 005 20251009102744.0 010 $a9783031114731$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031114724 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-11473-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7129844 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7129844 035 $a(CKB)25299553600041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-11473-1 035 $a(EXLCZ)9925299553600041 100 $a20221031d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aHomer, Humanism, Holocaust $eJewish Responses to the Crisis of Enlightenment During World War II /$fby Adam J. Goldwyn 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (154 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Goldwyn, Adam J. Homer, Humanism, Holocaust Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783031114724 327 $aChapter 1 Homer and the Jews on the Cusp of World War 2 -- Chapter 2 Nihilism, Thoughtlessness, and the Bourgeois Odysseus: Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, and the Failure of Enlightenment Humanism -- Chapter 3 Reflections on a Damaged Life: Hermann Broch?s Mythical Method and Rachel Bespaloff?s On the Iliad -- Chapter 4 Odysseus? (Memory) Scar: Geoffrey Hartman?s Erich Auerbach?s Odysseus -- Chapter 5 Hélène Cixous? and Daniel Mendelsohn?s Postmemory Scars: The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Holocaust in the Twenty-First Century. 330 $aThis book examines how Jewish intellectuals during and after the Second World War reinterpreted Homer?s epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, in light of their own wartime experiences, drawing a parallel between the ancient Greek genocide of the Trojans and the Nazi genocide of the Jews. The wartime writings of Theodore Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Erich Auerbach, Rachel Bespaloff, Hermann Broch, Max Horkheimer, Primo Levi, and others were attempts both to understand the collapse of European civilization and the Enlightenment through critiques of their foundational texts and to imagine the place of the Homeric epics in a new post-War humanism. The book thus also explores the reception of these writers, analyzing how Jewish child-survivors like Geoffrey Hartman and Hélène Cixous and writers of the post-Holocaust generation like Daniel Mendelsohn continued to read the epics as narratives of grief, trauma, and woundedness into the twenty-first century. Adam J. Goldwyn is Associate Professor of English at North Dakota State University, USA. He is the author of Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and Witness Literature in Byzantium: Narrating Slaves, Prisoners, and Refugees (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), and co-editor of Mediterranean Modernism: Intercultural Exchange and Aesthetic Development (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). . 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945 606 $aIntellectual life$xHistory 606 $aJews$xStudy and teaching 606 $aClassical literature 606 $aLiterature, Ancient 606 $aHistory of World War II and the Holocaust 606 $aIntellectual History 606 $aJewish Studies 606 $aClassical and Antique Literature 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945. 615 0$aIntellectual life$xHistory. 615 0$aJews$xStudy and teaching. 615 0$aClassical literature. 615 0$aLiterature, Ancient. 615 14$aHistory of World War II and the Holocaust. 615 24$aIntellectual History. 615 24$aJewish Studies. 615 24$aClassical and Antique Literature. 676 $a909.04924 676 $a940.531801 700 $aGoldwyn$b Adam J.$0849212 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910627283103321 996 $aHomer, Humanism, Holocaust$92978882 997 $aUNINA