The Fantastic in Holocaust Literature and Film - Critical Perspectives

Informationen zum Autor Judith B. Kerman, professor emerita of English at Saginaw Valley State University, has ten books or chapbooks of poetry and translations, including a seminal collection of scholarly articles about the film Blade Runner. She is publisher and editor of Mayapple Press in Woodstock, New York. John Edgar Browning is a visiting lecturer at Georgia Tech and has over twelve published and forthcoming books on Bram Stoker, vampires and horror. When the real is so fantastic, what literary effects will succeed in making it credible and help readers to comprehend its human meaning? As recent world developments fully show us, several lessons of the Nazi Holocaust still remain to be learned. To respond meaningfully and ethically to the Holocaust, writers need to incorporate moral and emotional complexity, and one way they have done this is through using the techniques of the fantastic. The authors in this anthology of essays examine the usefulness of fantastic story-telling for exploring relevant philosophical and moral issues about the Holocaust. Zusammenfassung "This collection of new essays explores the use of fantastic story-telling in Holocaust literature and film. Writers such as Jane Yolen and Art Spiegelman are discussed! as well as the sci-fi television series V (1983)! Stephen King's novella Apt Pupil (1982)! Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth (2006) and Martin Scorsese's dark thriller Shutter Island (2010)"--

Product details

• Authors: Judith B. Kerman, Judith B. (EDT)/ Browning Kerman
• Assisted by: John Edgar Browning (Editor), Judith B. Kerman (Editor), Donald E. Palumbo (Editor)
• Publisher: McFarland
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2015
• EAN: 9780786458745
• ISBN: 978-0-7864-5874-5
• Series: Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy; Critical Explorations in Scien; Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945)