Admitting the Holocaust - Collected Essays

Zusatztext "Important...bring[s] us back from the vacancy of words to the destiny of physical reality....Mr. Langer...illuminates the literature of the Holocaust--the chronicles of ghetto and camp, the fiction and poetry wrought out of the horror, the representations in film."--The New York Times Book Review Informationen zum Autor Lawrence L. Langer is Professor of English at Simmons College in Boston. The winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award for Holocaust Testimonies, he has also written Versions of Survival, The Age of Atrocity, and The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination. Klappentext This series of penetrating often gripping essays covers a wide range of issues, from the Holocaust's relation to time and memory and its portrayal in literature to its use and abuse by culture and its role in rehaping our sense of history's legacy. "Indispensable. . . . Clear, persuasive, and compelling".--Detroit Free Press. Zusammenfassung A collection of Langer's essays which represent his efforts to see the Holocaust as it really was. The essays examine the ways in which accounts of the Holocaust - in history, literature, film and theology - have extended and sometimes limited our insight into this event.

Product details

• Authors: Langer, Lawrence L. Langer, Lawrence L. (Professor of English Emeritus Langer
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.10.1996
• EAN: 9780195106480
• ISBN: 978-0-19-510648-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, HISTORY / Military / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, Second World War, The Holocaust, Folklore, myths & legends, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)