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H. G. Adler : Life, Literature, Legacy / edited by Julia Creet, Sara R. Horowitz, and Amira Bojadzija-Dan.
- Format:
- Book
- 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.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8101-3236-2
- OCLC:
- 937914503
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