Ethical Diversions - The Post Holocaust Narratives of Pynchon, Abish, Delillo, Spiegelman

Informationen zum Autor Katalin Orbán Klappentext First Published in 2005. This study focuses on a group of related texts which have struggled to rescue, rather than eliminate, the paradox of answering the original question: Why ethics rather than nothing? Zusammenfassung This title suggests that although the treatment and evasion of the Holocaust in certain postmodern texts often seems irresponsible, the texts have a deep affinity with ethical theories anchored in notions of obsession, persecution and trauma. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Chapter 1 "Mauschwitz"; Chapter 2 Familiarity and Forgetfulness in Walter Abish's Fiction; Chapter 3 Pinpricks on the Ars(e) Narrandi;

Produktdetails

• Autoren: KATALIN N, Katalin Orban, Katalin Orban, Orban Katalin
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 20.12.2004
• EAN: 9780415971676
• ISBN: 978-0-415-97167-6
• Seiten: 220
• Serien: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory; Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literature & literary studies, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Biography, Literature and Literary studies