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4. Oskar Rosenfeld and Historiographic Realism
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS vii
- PREFACE ix
- Introduction. On the Cultural Continuities of Literary Representation 1
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PART ONE. Is the Holocaust Still to Be Written?
- 1. The Holocaust, History Writing, and the Role of Fiction 25
- 2. Nostalgia and the Holocaust 41
- 3. Death in Language 59
- 4. Oskar Rosenfeld and Historiographic Realism 75
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PART TWO. A Question for Aesthetics?
- 5. Nazi Aesthetics in Historical Context 89
- 6. Writing Ruins 99
- 7. “If I forget thee, O Jerusalem” 119
- PART THREE. How Does Culture Influence Memory? 135
- 8. The Holocaust and the Economy of Memory, from Bellow to Morrison 137
- 9. “And in the Distance You Hear Music, a Band Playing” 179
- 10. Reading Heart of Darkness after the Holocaust 190
- 11. Theorizing the Perpetrator in Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader and Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow 210
- CONTRIBUTORS’ BIOGRAPHIES 231
- INDEX 235
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS vii
- PREFACE ix
- Introduction. On the Cultural Continuities of Literary Representation 1
-
PART ONE. Is the Holocaust Still to Be Written?
- 1. The Holocaust, History Writing, and the Role of Fiction 25
- 2. Nostalgia and the Holocaust 41
- 3. Death in Language 59
- 4. Oskar Rosenfeld and Historiographic Realism 75
-
PART TWO. A Question for Aesthetics?
- 5. Nazi Aesthetics in Historical Context 89
- 6. Writing Ruins 99
- 7. “If I forget thee, O Jerusalem” 119
- PART THREE. How Does Culture Influence Memory? 135
- 8. The Holocaust and the Economy of Memory, from Bellow to Morrison 137
- 9. “And in the Distance You Hear Music, a Band Playing” 179
- 10. Reading Heart of Darkness after the Holocaust 190
- 11. Theorizing the Perpetrator in Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader and Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow 210
- CONTRIBUTORS’ BIOGRAPHIES 231
- INDEX 235