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H. G. Adler - Life, Literature, Legacy

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 The first collection of essays in English dedicated to the life and work of German-language author H.G. Adler. Together, the essays examine Adlerâ€™s writing in relation to his life, especially his memory as a survivor of the Nazi death camps and his posthumous recognition for having produced a Gesamkunstwerk, an aesthetic synthesis of the Shoah.
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Ideological Death - Suicide In Israeli Literature

by Rachel S. Harris

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 An Ideological Death: Suicide in Israeli Literature explores literary challenges to Israel's national narratives. Many prominent Israeli writers use their fiction to confront the centrality of the army, the mythology of the "new Jew," the positioning of Tel Aviv as the first Israeli city, and the very process by which a nation's history is constructed. Yehudit Katzir, Etgar Keret, Amos Oz, Yaakov Shabtai, Benjamin Tammuz, and A. B. Yehoshua are among the writers who engage with depictions of suicide in a critical and rhetorical process that reconsiders myths at the heart of the Zionist project. In Israeli literature, suicide is linked to a society's compulsion to create impossible ideals that leave its populace disappointed and deluded. Yet, as Rachel S. Harris shows, even at their harshest these writers also acknowledge the idealism that helped build Israel as a modern nation-state.
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Ethics Of Witnessing - The Holocaust In Polish Writers'' Diaries From Warsaw, 1939-1945

by Rachel Feldhay Brenner

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 Investigates the reactions of five important Polish diarists-writers - Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, Maria Dabrowska, Aurelia Wylezynska, Zofia Nalkowska, and Stanislaw Rembek - during the period when the Nazis persecuted and murdered Warsaw's Jewish population. This volume examines the extent to which ideologies of humanism and nationalism informed the diarists' perceptions.
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Anti-Nazi Modernism - The Challenges Of Resistance In 1930s Fiction

by Spiro Mia Spiro

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 Mia Spiro's Anti-Nazi Modernism marks a major step forward in the critical debates over the relationship between modernist art and politics. Spiro analyzes the antifascist, and particularly anti-Nazi, narrative methods used by key British and American fiction writers in the 1930s. Focusing on works by Djuna Barnes, Christopher Isherwood, and Virginia Woolf, Spiro illustrates how these writers use an "anti-Nazi aesthetic" to target and expose Nazism's murderous discourse of exclusion. The three writers challenge the illusion of harmony and unity promoted by the Nazi spectacle in parades, film, rallies, and propaganda. Spiro illustrates how their writings, seldom read in this way, resonate with the psychological and social theories of the period and warn against Nazism's suppression of individuality. Her approach also demonstrates how historical and cultural contexts complicate the works, often reinforcing the oppressive discourses they aim to attack. This book explores the textual ambivalences toward the "Others" in society-most prominently the Modern Woman, the homosexual, and the Jew. By doing so, Spirouncovers important clues to the sexual and racial politics that were widespread in Europe and the United States in the years leading up to World War II.
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Translated Jew - German Jewish Culture Outside The Margins

by Leslie Morris

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 The Translated Jew brings together an eclectic set of literary and visual texts to reimagine the transnational potential for German Jewish culture in the twenty-first century. Departing from scholarship that has located the German Jewish text as an object that can be defined geographically and historically, Leslie Morris challenges national literary historiography and redraws the maps by which transnational Jewish culture and identity must be read. Morris explores the myriad acts of translation, actual and metaphorical, through which Jewishness leaves its traces, taking as a given the always provisional nature of Jewish text and Jewish language. Although the focus is on contemporary German Jewish literary cultures, The Translated Jew also turns its attention to a number of key visual and architectural projects by American, British, and French artists and writers, including W. G. Sebald, Anne Blonstein, Helene Cixous, Ulrike Mohr, Daniel Blaufuks, Paul Celan, Raymond Federman, and Rose Auslander. In thus realigning German Jewish culture with European and American Jewish culture and post-Holocaust aesthetics, this book explores the circulation of Jewishness between the United States and Europe. The insistence on the polylingualism of any single language and the multidirectionality of Jewishness are at the very center of The Translated Jew.
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Emergency Writing - Irish Literature, Neutrality, And The Second World War

by Anna Teekell

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 Taking seriously Ireland's euphemism for World War II, ""the Emergency"", Anna Teekell's Emergency Writing asks both what happens to literature written during a state of emergency and what it means for writing to be a response to an emergency.
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Screening Auschwitz - Wanda Jakubowska''S The Last Stage And The Politics Of Commemoration

by Haltof Marek Haltof

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 Examines the classic Polish Holocaust film The Last Stage (Ostatni etap), directed by the Auschwitz survivor Wanda Jakubowska (1907-1998). Released in 1948, The Last Stage was a pioneering work and the first narrative film to portray the Nazi German camp. Haltof's fascinating book offers to English-speaking readers a wealth of new materials and sources.
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Writing Against War - Literature, Activism, And The British Peace Movement

by Charles Andrews

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 In Writing against War, Charles Andrews integrates literary analysis and peace studies to create innovative new ways to view experimental British fiction in the interwar period. The cataclysm of the First World War gave rise to the British Peace Movement, a spectrum of pacifist, internationalist, and antiwar organizations and individuals. Antiwar sentiments found expression not only in editorials, criticism, and journalism but also in novels and other works of literature. Writing against War examines the work of Aldous Huxley, Storm Jameson, Siegfried Sassoon, Rose Macaulay, and Virginia Woolf to analyze the effects of their attempts to employ fiction in the service of peace activism. It further traces how Huxley, Woolf, and others sought to reconcile their antiwar beliefs with implacable military violence. The British Peace Movement's failure to halt the rise of fascism and the Second World War continues to cast a shadow over contemporary pacifist movements. Writing about War will fascinate scholars of peace studies and literature and offers valuable insights for current-day peace activists and artists who seek to integrate creativity with activism.
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Spoiling The Stories - The Rise Of Israeli Women''S Fiction

by Tamar Merin

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 <i>Spoiling the Stories </i>by<i> </i>Tamar Merin is based on the theoretical idea of intersexual dialogue, a term that refers to the various literary strategies employed by Israeli female fiction writers expressing their voice within a male-dominated and (still) inherently Oedipal literary tradition.
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Young Lions - How Jewish Authors Reinvented The American War Novel

by Leah Garrett

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 Revisiting best-selling works ranging from Norman MailerAEs The Naked and the Dead to Joseph HellerAEs Catch-22 , and uncovering a range of unknown archival material, Leah Garrett shows how Jewish writers used the theme of World War II to reshape the American publicAEs ideas about war, the Holocaust, and the role of Jews in postwar life.
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An Ideological Death - Suicide In Israeli Literature

by Rachel S. Harris

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 Examines literary challenges to Israel's national narratives. The centrality of the army, the mythology of the ""new Jew,"" the vision of the first Israeli city, Tel Aviv, and the very process by which a nation's history is constructed are confronted in fiction by many prominent Israeli writers.
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The Ethics Of Witnessing - The Holocaust In Polish Writers' Diaries From Warsaw, 1939-1945

by Rachel Brenner

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 Investigates the reactions of five important Polish diarists-writers - Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, Maria Dabrowska, Aurelia Wylezynska, Zofia Nalkowska, and Stanislaw Rembek - during the period when the Nazis persecuted and murdered Warsaw's Jewish population. This volume examines the extent to which ideologies of humanism and nationalism informed the diarists' perceptions.
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Theory'S Autoimmunity - Skepticism, Literature, And Philosophy

by Zahi Zalloua

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 Zahi Zalloua's Theory's Autoimmunity is a multidisciplinary work of philosophy and critical theory that argues for reclaiming theory's skepticism as a value.
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Theory'S Autoimmunity - Skepticism, Literature, And Philosophy

by Zahi Zalloua

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 Zahi Zalloua's Theory's Autoimmunity is a multidisciplinary work of philosophy and critical theory that argues for reclaiming theory's skepticism as a value.
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The Baroque Night

by Spencer Golub

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 Based on his reading of films, theater and drama, novels, and his own life, Spencer Golub argues that we live an unreality from within which we imagine and construct a fictional idea of the real.
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The Baroque Night

by Spencer Golub

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 Based on his reading of films, theater and drama, novels, and his own life, Spencer Golub argues that we live an unreality from within which we imagine and construct a fictional idea of the real.
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Pizza City, Usa - 101 Reasons Why Chicago Is America'S Greatest Pizza Town

by Steve Dolinsky

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 Expertly written, thoroughly researched, and finely detailed, you will learn more about pizza in Chicago in this book than you ever thought possible. Does Lou Malnati's really have the best deep dish in the city? Where should you go to find the best artisan-style thin crust? Find the answers to all of those questions and more in Pizza City, USA.
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On Weight And The Will - The Forces Of Form In German Literature And Aesthetics, 1890-1930

by Malika Maskarinec

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 Charts a modern history of form as emergent from force. Offering a provocative alternative to the imagery of crisis and estrangement that has preoccupied scholarship on modernism, Malika Maskarinec shows that German modernism conceives of human bodies and aesthetic objects as shaped by a contest of conflicting and reciprocally-intensifying forces.
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Lessons And Legacies Xiii - New Approaches To An Integrated History Of The Holocaust: Social History, Representation, Theory

by Alexandra Garbarini, Brad Prager, Dana Smith, Kaelber Lutz, Kubatova Hana, Marion Kaplan, Martin Dean e Paul Jaskot

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 The social history of the genocide, its representation in postwar culture, and new theoretical approaches stand at the forefront of current research in a range of disciplines. Analyses at the most intimate scale of the individual or of a particular locale are juxtaposed with those that turn to broader studies of the war or postwar order.
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Emergency Writing - Irish Literature, Neutrality, And The Second World War

by Anna Teekell

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 Taking seriously Ireland's euphemism for World War II, ""the Emergency"", Anna Teekell's Emergency Writing asks both what happens to literature written during a state of emergency and what it means for writing to be a response to an emergency.
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All Blue So Late - Poems

by Laura Swearingen-Steadwell

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 Presents the panorama of a young woman's life as she struggles to come to terms with her place in the world. These poems look to race, gender, and American identity, plumbing the individual's attendant grief, rage, and discomfort with these constructs.
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Judgment And Action - Fragments Toward A History

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 Written by theologians, literary scholars, political theorists, classicists, and philosophers, the essays in Judgment and Action address the growing sense that certain key concepts in humanistic scholarship have become suspect, if not downright unintelligible, amid the current plethora of critical methods. These essays aim to reassert the normative force of judgment and action.
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Judgment And Action - Fragments Toward A History

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 Written by theologians, literary scholars, political theorists, classicists, and philosophers, the essays in Judgment and Action address the growing sense that certain key concepts in humanistic scholarship have become suspect, if not downright unintelligible, amid the current plethora of critical methods. These essays aim to reassert the normative force of judgment and action.
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Salvage - Poems

by Cynthia Dewi Oka

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 How do we transform the wreckage of our identities? Cynthia Dewi Oka's evocative collection answers this question by brimming with what we salvage from our most deep-seated battles. Reflecting the many dimensions of the poet's life, Salvage manifests an intermixture of aesthetic forms that encompasses multiple social, political, and cultural contexts.
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