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H. G. Adler : Life, Literature, Legacy / edited by Julia Creet, Sara R. Horowitz, and Amira Bojadzija-Dan.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Bojadzija-Dan, Amira, 1966- editor.
Horowitz, Sara R., 1951- editor.
Creet, Julia, 1958- editor.
Series:
Cultural expressions of World War II.
Cultural expressions of World War II
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Adler, H. G--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.
Adler, H. G.
Adler, H. G--Congresses.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature--Congresses.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2016]
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Winner, 2016 Canadian Jewish Literary Award in the Jewish Thought and Culture category H.G.Adler: Life, Literature, Legacy is the first collection of essays in English dedicated to the life and work of German-language author H.G.Adler.
Contents:
Introduction : encountering H.G. Adler / Julia Creet, Sara R. Horowitz, and Amira Bojadzija-Dan
Part one : Writing a life. The world of my father's memory writing : the Gesamtkunstwerk of H.G. Adler / Jeremy Adler
The self positioned, the (de)posited self, the soul released : the uses of biography in H.G. Adler's Shoah trilogy / Peter Filkins
Shaping survival through writing : H.G. Adler's correspondence with Bettina Gross, 1945-1947 / Sven Kramer
Part two : Contexts. Recovered gems : neglect and recovery of Holocaust fiction / Sara R. Horowitz
H.G. Adler and first-person history / Omer Bartov
Holocaust fact and Holocaust fiction : the dual vision of H.G. Adler / Lawrence L. Langer
Part three : fictions. From Panorama to The journey : repetition and intensification of traumatic memory / Amira Bojadzija-Dan
Double exposure in the absence of verbs : repossessing the image of self in H.G. Adler's The journey / Emily Budick
A dialectic of the deictic : pronouns and persons in H.G. Adler's The journey / Julia Creet
"I have lost myself" : H.G. Adler's novel The wall and the damaged identity of the survivor / Ruth Vogel-Klein
Part four : genres. Prague circles : H.G. Adler's Kafkaesque hope / Helen Finch
"Die Grenzen des Sagbaren" : toward a political philology in H.G. Adler's Reflections on language / Lynn L. Wolff
"Here I stand": the poetry of H.G. Adler / Katrin Kohl
Part five : encounters. An imaginative dialogue between H.G. Adler and psychoanalysis : aesthetic themes of uncertainty, transformation, and binding / Deborah P. Britzman
The archive and the image : H.G. Adler's snapshots of traumatic history / Dorota Glowacka
Reading H.G. Adler (tangentially) / Leslie Morris
Major works by H.G. Adler.
Notes:
"The essays in this volume developed from an international symposium, "H. G. Adler: 'Life, Literature, Legacy" convened at the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University University in Toronto, Canada, on November 11 and 12, 2012"--Acknowledgements.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN:
0-8101-3236-2
OCLC:
937914503

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