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;

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• Authors: KATALIN N, Katalin Orban, Katalin Orban, Orban Katalin
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.12.2004
• EAN: 9780415971676
• ISBN: 978-0-415-97167-6
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory; Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; 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