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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, a |
| 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 Holocaus |