In the Shadow of the Holocaust & Other Essays

Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-90-420-0562-4
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 29, 127 Seiten, Format (B × H): 17 mm x 24 mm

Reihe: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft

The main thrust of this collection of essays, excluding those on Russian literature, is to visualize the European Holocaust from a number of different vantage points - the historical and cultural, the political and individual, the psychological and social, and the critical and literary. This wider perspective, especially as it relates to the range and extent of human suffering, suggests that a redefinition of the twentieth-century Holocaust is now timely.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ponomareff, Constantin V.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface. ONE The Self in Cultural History. Lawrence of Arabia: The Anatomy of a Revolt. Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1893-1930. Death of a Poet. The Aestheticization of the Holocaust. The Virus of Inhumanity. Some Aspects of the Post-Holocaust Jewish Psyche. The Broadening of Feeling in Twentieth-Century Civilization. TWO. Synesthesia as Reader Response. Woman as Nemesis in Modern Russian Literature. An Essay on Cultural Psychology. The Mystic Dimension in Russian Poetry. The Paradoxical Nature of Russian Literary Text. THREE. God in Search of Self: Divine Tragedy. The Antithetical Structure of Wolfgang Borchert's Play The Man Outside. Camus's The Stranger: Literary Disorientation. Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano: The Suffering Conscience.