By words alone : the Holocaust in literature / Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi ; with a foreword by Alfred Kazin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ezrahi, Sidra DeKoven.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Jewish literature--History and criticism.

Jewish literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 262 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1982, c1980.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

One. Introduction

Two. Documentation as Art

Three. "Concentrationary Realism" and the Landscape of Death

Four. Literature of Survival

Five. The Holocaust as a Jewish Tragedy 1: The Legacy of Lamentations

Six. The Holocaust as a Jewish Tragedy 2: The Covenantal Context

Seven. The Holocaust Mythologized

Eight. History Imagined: The Holocaust in American Literature

Afterword

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612537257

9781282537255

1282537253

9780226233376

0226233375

OCLC:

609856461