Literature of the Holocaust / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Bloom's period studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.

Physical Description:

vii, 325 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Chelsea House, [2004]

Summary:

From the greatest tragedy of the 20th century rose a generation of writers determined to tell their stories and carry on the legacy of those who perished. This title provides a critical perspective on the works that captured this somber period in Western history.

Contents:

The Holocaust in the stories of Elie Wiesel / Thomas A. Idinopulos

The problematics of Holocaust literature / Alvin H. Rosenfeld

Tragedy and the Holocaust / Robert Skloot

Holocaust documentary fiction : novelist as eyewitness / James E. Young

Holocaust and autobiography : Wiesel, Friedländer, Pisar / Joseph Sungolowsky

The Holocaust / Deborah E. Lipstadt

Primo Levi and the language of witness / Michael Tager

The utopian space of a nightmare : The diary of Anne Frank / Barbara Chiarello

The literature of Auschwitz / Lawrence L. Langer

Comedic distance in Holocaust literature / Mark Cory

Public memory and its discontents / Geoffrey H. Hartman

Two Holocaust voices : Cynthia Ozick and Art Spiegelman / Lawrence L. Langer

The Holocaust and literary studies / Jeffrey M. Peck

Rafael Seligmann's Rubinsteins Versteigerung : the German-Jewish family novel before and after the Holocaust / Ritchie Robertson

Memorizing memory / Amy Hungerford.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-308) and index.

ISBN:

0791076776

0791079856

OCLC:

52799665