| Description |
1 online resource (190 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Prologue; 1 Theoretical Background; 2 The Word in Exile; 3 The Death of the Father; 4 The Death of the Child; 5 The Splitting of the Self; 6 The Resurrection of the Self; 7 The Implication of the Reader; Epilogue; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y. |
| Summary |
""In the Holocaust novel, silence is always a character, and the word is always its subject matter."" So writes David Patterson in this profound and original study of more than thirty important writers. Contrary to existing views, he argues, the Holocaust novel is not an attempt to depict an unimaginable reality or an ineffable horror. It is, rather, an endeavor to fetch the word from silence and restore it to meaning, to resurrect the human soul, to regenerate the relation between the self and God, the self and other, the self and itself. This book is less a critical study in the usual sense t. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature. |
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Jewish fiction -- History and criticism.
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Jewish fiction. |
| Indexed Term |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature |
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Jewish fiction History and criticism |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Patterson, David, 1948- Shriek of Silence : A Phenomenology of the Holocaust Novel. Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015 9780813117683 |
| ISBN |
9780813161495 electronic book |
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0813161495 electronic book |
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