Memory and mastery : Primo Levi as writer and witness / edited by Roberta S. Kremer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kremer, Roberta S., 1946-

Series:

SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Levi, Primo, 1919-1987--Criticism and interpretation.

Levi, Primo.

Levi, Primo, 1919-1987.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xviii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2001]

Contents:

The haunted journey of Primo Levi / Gian Paolo Biasin

Primo Levi and his concept of time: time of the gun, time of the spirit / Yaffa Eliach

The rhetoric of the Univers concentrationnaire / Risa Sodi

Primo Levi's science as 'evil nurse': the lesson of inversion / Nancy Harrowitz

Moral snares and parables: between science fiction and Midrash / Mirna Cicioni

At an uncertain hour: the other side of Primo Levi / Nicholas Patruno

On language and violence / Brian Cliff

On language and personhood: a linguistic odyssey / Patricia Sayre and Linnea Vacca

Bridging the narrative and visual: Primo Levi as a source of inspiration for contemporary artists / Stephen C. Feinstein

The duty and risk of testimony: Primo Levi as keeper of memory / Franca Molino Signorini

Legacy in gray / Lawrence L. Langer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-233) and index.

ISBN:

0791449211

079144922X

OCLC:

44089210