LEADER 03331nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910821001603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-53725-3 010 $a9786612537257 010 $a0-226-23337-5 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226233376 035 $a(CKB)2550000000007454 035 $a(EBL)485966 035 $a(OCoLC)609856461 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000357489 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11263408 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000357489 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10354240 035 $a(PQKB)11455876 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000434015 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12190171 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000434015 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10395973 035 $a(PQKB)11696743 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC485966 035 $a(DE-B1597)535616 035 $a(OCoLC)1135577150 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226233376 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL485966 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10366828 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL253725 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000007454 100 $a20791227d1982 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBy words alone $ethe Holocaust in literature /$fSidra DeKoven Ezrahi ; with a foreword by Alfred Kazin 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d1982, c1980 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 262 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-226-23335-9 311 0 $a0-226-23336-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tForeword --$tAcknowledgments --$tOne. Introduction --$tTwo. Documentation as Art --$tThree. "Concentrationary Realism" and the Landscape of Death --$tFour. Literature of Survival --$tFive. The Holocaust as a Jewish Tragedy 1: The Legacy of Lamentations --$tSix. The Holocaust as a Jewish Tragedy 2: The Covenantal Context --$tSeven. The Holocaust Mythologized --$tEight. History Imagined: The Holocaust in American Literature --$tAfterword --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aJewish literature$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aJewish literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809.93358 676 $a809/.93358 700 $aEzrahi$b Sidra DeKoven$01672431 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821001603321 996 $aBy words alone$94035776 997 $aUNINA