The Shriek of Silence: A Phenomenology of the Holocaust NovelUniversity Press of Kentucky, 1992 - 180 pagine ""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. |
Sommario
Prologue | 1 |
The Word in Exile | 29 |
The Death of the Father | 54 |
The Death of the Child | 77 |
The Splitting of the Self | 98 |
The Resurrection of the Self | 123 |
Epilogue | 168 |
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The Shriek of Silence: A Phenomenology of the Holocaust Novel David Patterson Anteprima limitata - 2021 |
The Shriek of Silence: A Phenomenology of the Holocaust Novel David Patterson Anteprima limitata - 2014 |
The Shriek of Silence: A Phenomenology of the Holocaust Novel David Patterson Visualizzazione estratti - 1992 |
Parole e frasi comuni
Adam Resurrected affirmation Age of Wonders Aharon Aharon Appelfeld answer Appelfeld Arnost Lustig ashes asks Auschwitz author and reader Babi Yar Badenheim 1939 Bakhtin becomes body Buber calls character's child comes creation dead death dialogic discourse Elie Wiesel encounter Estetika eternity event existential eyes face father hear Hebrew Holocaust literature Holocaust novel Holocaust novelist human identity implicated isolation Jean Améry Jewish Ka-tzetnik language laughter Levinas living loss lost madman madness main character meaning memory messenger mother mouth Neher never Night nothingness oneself outcry Paltiel phenomenological prayer presence Primo Levi question Rawicz rebellion redemption relation resurrection reveals Rosenzweig says Shosha shriek of silence signifies soul speaks splitting Star of Ashes struggle summons survivor takes tale thing Thou tion Trans transformed translated truth Tzili utterance victim voice Wiesel's The Testament Wiesel's The Town witness word in exile yet-to-be