Eva Figes' writings : a journey through trauma / by Silvia Pellicer-Ortin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pellicer-Ortin, Silvia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychic trauma in literature.

Jewish refugees in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

This book provides a general overview of the life and literary career of the prolific writer Eva Figes, placing her extensive production within the various literary movements that have shaped the last century, and drawing on the main features of her works and the different stages in her production. Having recourse to the tools provided by narratology and using the theoretical background of the disciplines of ethics, Holocaust and trauma studies, together with other related fields such as theories of artistic representation, identity questions concerning Jewishness, contemporary history and phi

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 16, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-8480-4

OCLC:

925280410