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1 online resource (x, 236 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Addresses the difficulty of representing the Holocaust in literature and on film. Traumatic Encounters argues for an alternative memorial path in Holocaust and cultural studies--one that shows the vital necessity of thinking in a universal way about an event like the Holocaust. Relying on Hegel's notion that the particular is already universal, Eisenstein shows how the encounter with trauma transpires not in the refusal of a universalizing gesture but rather in its wholesale embrace. This embrace results in a recognition involving the trauma that conditions the possibility of history in the first place--a structural trauma immune to historicization that Hegel and psychoanalysis place at the heart of subjectivity and community. The structural trauma encounter is at the center of four titles that Eisenstein examines: Spielberg's Schindler's List, D.M. Thomas's The White Hotel, Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus, and David Grossman's See Under: Love. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
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Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831. |
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Schindler's list (Motion picture)
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Schindler's list (Motion picture) |
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Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831. |
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Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) |
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Schindler's list (Motion picture) |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature. |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography -- Philosophy.
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Historiography. |
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Philosophy. |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in motion pictures.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in motion pictures. |
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence.
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Judaism and literature.
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Judaism and literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1939 - 1945 |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Eisenstein, Paul. Traumatic encounters. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003 0791457990 0791458008 (DLC) 2002030969 (OCoLC)50638498 |
| ISBN |
1417536136 (electronic book) |
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9781417536139 (electronic book) |
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0791457990 (alkaline paper) |
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9780791457993 (alkaline paper) |
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0791458008 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780791458006 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780791486382 |
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0791486389 |
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