Student companion to Elie Wiesel [[electronic resource] /] / Sanford Sternlicht

• Autore: Sternlicht Sanford <1931->
• Pubblicazione: Westport, Conn., : Greenwood Press, 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (150 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.54
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [127]-133) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; PART I: BACKGROUNDS; 1 The Life of Elie Wiesel; 2 Elie Wiesel's Literary Heritage and Background: Hasidism, the Holocaust, the Great Jewish Books, and the Western Literary Tradition; PART II: THE HOLOCAUST NARRATIVES; 3 Night (1958); 4 Dawn (1961); 5 The Accident (1962); 6 The Town beyond the Wall (1964); 7 The Gates of the Forest (1964); PART III: AFTER THE HOLOCAUST: HOPE AND DESPAIR; 8 A Beggar in Jerusalem (1970); 9 The Oath (1973) ; 10 Later Novels: The Testament (1981), The Fifth Son (1985), The Forgotten (1992), Twilight (1988), and The Judges (2002)11 Selected Nonfiction; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; W; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: Since it was written nearly 50 years ago, Night (1958) has changed world perception of the Holocaust experience. Wiesel's oeuvre, including Holocaust narratives such as Dawn (1961), novels, essays, tales, and plays, has also altered the critical and aesthetic landscape through which we view literature, placing themes of religious identity, hope, survival, devotion to family, and humanity ahead of distinctions of fiction and nonfiction. This volume offers critical analysis of all of Wiesel's major writings, with full chapters on Night, Dawn, The Oath, and four other full-length works. His most
• Titolo autorizzato: Student companion to Elie Wiesel
• ISBN: 1-280-90885-8; 9786610908851; 0-313-01715-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451255503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Student companions to classic writers.