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Holocaust as Fiction : Bernhard Schlink's "Nazi" Novels and Their Films / by W. Donahue.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Donahue, William Collins.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Literature, Modern--20th century.
Literature, Modern.
European literature.
Fiction.
Literature--History and criticism.
Literature.
Culture--Study and teaching.
Culture.
Ethnology.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
European Literature.
Fiction Literature.
Literary History.
Cultural Studies.
Regional Cultural Studies.
Local Subjects:
Twentieth-Century Literature.
European Literature.
Fiction Literature.
Literary History.
Cultural Studies.
Regional Cultural Studies.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (270 p.)
Edition:
1st ed. 2010.
Place of Publication:
New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Holocaust as Fiction seeks to explain and critically evaluate the extraordinary success of Schlink's internationally acclaimed novel, The Reader , the widely read "Selb" detective trilogy, and two popular films based closely on his work.
Contents:
Introduction : "Mighty aphrodite" or, How to have it both ways
Resister after the fact : Schlink's Selb-trilogy and the culture of politically correct Holocaust literature
Soothing fictions : ambiguity as defense
"What would you have done?" : guilt as virtue
Fathers and sons : two kinds of second generation victim
The reader as an American novel
The Hollywood reader.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9786612993633
9781282993631
1282993631
9780230115460
0230115462
OCLC:
696332433

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