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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. Among the international scholars of German, Jewish, and Holocaust literature and history who reveal the range of Adler's legacy across genres ar...
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Northwestern University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Evanston, Illinois : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cultural expressions of World War II
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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. Among the international scholars of German, Jewish, and Holocaust literature and history who reveal the range of Adler's legacy across genres are Adler's son, Jeremy Adler, and Peter Filkins, translator of Adler's trilogy, Panorama (The Journey). Together, the essays examine Adler's writing in relation to his life, especially his memory as a survivor of the Nazi death camps and his posthumous recognition for having produced a Gesamkunstwerk, an aesthetic synthesis of the Shoah. The book carries the moral charge of Adler's work, moving beyond testimony to a complex dialectic between fact and fiction, exploring Adler's experiments with voice and the ethical work of literary engagement with the Shoah. -- |
| Item Description: | "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. |
| Carrier Form: | x, 417 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780810132351 (hardback) : 0810132354 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | PT2601 |
| CLC: | I516.065-532 |
| Call Number: | I516.065-532/H111/2012 |
| Contents: | Introduction : encountering H.G. Adler / Julia Creet, Sara R. Horowitz, and Amira Bojadzija-Dan -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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. |