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Author Marshall, Sheridan.

Title Forgetting to remember : religious remembrance and the literary response to the Holocaust / Sheridan Marshall.

Publication Info. London : Vallentine Mitchell, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
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Note Title from PDF title page (viewed on Sept. 19, 2014).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Front Matter; Title Page; Contents; Acknowedgements; Introduction; The Desanctification of Remembrance; Chapter 1; Forms of Remembrance; Chapter 2; Poetry as Confession: Paul Celan and Geoffrey Hill; Chapter 3; Novelistic Prose as Anamnesis: Gunter Grass and Imre Kertesz; Chapter 4; Drama as Testament: Peter Weiss and Samuel Beckett; Conclusion; Remembrance as Disconsolation; References; Index.
Summary Forgetting to Remember examines the remembrance of the Holocaust in literary texts by six European writers: Paul Celan, Geoffrey Hill, Gunter Grass, Imre Kertesz, Peter Weiss, and Samuel Beckett. Close readings of canonical texts - such as Grass's The Tin Drum and Beckett's Waiting for Godot in conjunction with less well-known works, like Kertesz's Kaddish for a Child Not Born - reveal fresh insights about the ethical and aesthetic challenges of representing the Holocaust. The reader will see how the simultaneous reliance upon and rejection of religious forms of remembrance in the literary tex.
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Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature.
Religion and literature.
Religion and literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Marshall, Sheridan. Forgetting to Remember : Religious Remembrance and the Literary Response to the Holocaust. Portland : Vallentine Mitchell, ©2014 9780853038399
ISBN 9780853038290 (electronic book)
0853038295 (electronic book)