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The conflagration of community : fiction before and after Auschwitz / J. Hillis Miller.
LIBRA PN56.H55 M55 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, J. Hillis (Joseph Hillis), 1928-2021.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.
- Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924--Criticism and interpretation.
- Kafka, Franz.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 309 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2011.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Theories of community. Nancy contra Stevens
- pt. 2. Franz Kafka: premonitions of Auschwitz. Foreshadowings of Auschwitz in Kafka's writings
- The breakdown of community and the disabling of speech acts in Kafka's The trial
- The Castle: no Mitsein, no verifiable interpretation
- pt. 3. Holocaust novels. Prologue: Community in fiction after Auschwitz
- Three novels about the Shoah
- Imre Kertész's Fatelessness: fiction as testimony
- pt. 4. Fiction after Auschwitz. Morrison's Beloved
- Coda
- Notes
- Index of names, titles of works, and characters.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226527222
- 0226527220
- 9780226527215
- 0226527212
- OCLC:
- 747314034
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