Author: J. Hillis Miller
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226527220
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Juxtaposes readings of books about the Holocaust with Kafka's novels and Morrison's 'Beloved', asking what it means to think of texts as acts of testimony.
The Conflagration of Community
Author: J. Hillis Miller
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226527220
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Juxtaposes readings of books about the Holocaust with Kafka's novels and Morrison's 'Beloved', asking what it means to think of texts as acts of testimony.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226527220
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Juxtaposes readings of books about the Holocaust with Kafka's novels and Morrison's 'Beloved', asking what it means to think of texts as acts of testimony.
The Conflagration of Community
Author: J. Hillis Miller
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226527239
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
“After Auschwitz to write even a single poem is barbaric.” The Conflagration of Community challenges Theodor Adorno’s famous statement about aesthetic production after the Holocaust, arguing for the possibility of literature to bear witness to extreme collective and personal experiences. J. Hillis Miller masterfully considers how novels about the Holocaust relate to fictions written before and after it, and uses theories of community from Jean-Luc Nancy and Derrida to explore the dissolution of community bonds in its wake. Miller juxtaposes readings of books about the Holocaust—Keneally’s Schindler’s List, McEwan’s Black Dogs, Spiegelman’s Maus, and Kertész’s Fatelessness—with Kafka’s novels and Morrison’s Beloved, asking what it means to think of texts as acts of testimony. Throughout, Miller questions the resonance between the difficulty of imagining, understanding, or remembering Auschwitz—a difficulty so often a theme in records of the Holocaust—and the exasperating resistance to clear, conclusive interpretation of these novels. The Conflagration of Community is an eloquent study of literature’s value to fathoming the unfathomable.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226527239
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
“After Auschwitz to write even a single poem is barbaric.” The Conflagration of Community challenges Theodor Adorno’s famous statement about aesthetic production after the Holocaust, arguing for the possibility of literature to bear witness to extreme collective and personal experiences. J. Hillis Miller masterfully considers how novels about the Holocaust relate to fictions written before and after it, and uses theories of community from Jean-Luc Nancy and Derrida to explore the dissolution of community bonds in its wake. Miller juxtaposes readings of books about the Holocaust—Keneally’s Schindler’s List, McEwan’s Black Dogs, Spiegelman’s Maus, and Kertész’s Fatelessness—with Kafka’s novels and Morrison’s Beloved, asking what it means to think of texts as acts of testimony. Throughout, Miller questions the resonance between the difficulty of imagining, understanding, or remembering Auschwitz—a difficulty so often a theme in records of the Holocaust—and the exasperating resistance to clear, conclusive interpretation of these novels. The Conflagration of Community is an eloquent study of literature’s value to fathoming the unfathomable.
Community Life and Civic Problems
Author: Howard Copeland Hill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Community in Twentieth-Century Fiction
Author: P. Salvan
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137282843
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This book focuses on the imaginary construction and deconstruction of human communities in modern and contemporary fiction. Drawing on recent theoretical debate on the notion of community (Nancy, Blanchot, Badiou, Esposito), this collection examines narratives by Joyce, Mansfield, Davies, Naipaul, DeLillo, Atwood and others.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137282843
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This book focuses on the imaginary construction and deconstruction of human communities in modern and contemporary fiction. Drawing on recent theoretical debate on the notion of community (Nancy, Blanchot, Badiou, Esposito), this collection examines narratives by Joyce, Mansfield, Davies, Naipaul, DeLillo, Atwood and others.
Allen County Kentucky Family History
Author:
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1596520175
Category : Allen County (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1596520175
Category : Allen County (Ky.)
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Fire Protection Service
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Journal of the Western Society of Engineers
Author: Western Society of Engineers (Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Fire
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fire extinction
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fire extinction
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Arson-for-profit
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arson
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arson
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Fireproof Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Building
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Building
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description