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By Words Alone:

The Holocaust in Literature
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University of Chicago Press, Oct 3, 2008 - Literary Criticism - 276 pages
The creative literature that evolved from the Holocaust constitutes an unprecedented encounter between art and life. Those who wrote about the Holocaust were forced to extend the limits of their imaginations to encompass unspeakably violent extremes of human behavior. The result, as Ezrahi shows in By Words Alone, is a body of literature that transcends national and cultural boundaries and shares a spectrum of attitudes toward the concentration camps and the world beyond, toward the past and the future.
  

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A meticulous yet engaging overview of the major mile-markers in Holocaust fiction that was out there in 1980. One of Ezrahi's gifts is that she makes the reader want to read the work of even the ... Read full review

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Contents

ONE Introduction
1
TWO Documentation as Art
24
THREE Concentrationary Realism and the Landscape of Death
49
FOUR Literature of Survival
67
The Legacy of Lamentations
96
The Covenantal Context
116
SEVEN The Holocaust Mythologized
149
The Holocaust in American Literature
176
Afterword
217
Notes
221
Bibliography
245
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By Words Alone: The Holocaust in Literature. By SIDRA DEKOVEN EZRAHI. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1980. vii + 262 pp. $15.00. ...
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'WHAT CAN —AND CANNOT BE SAID': RELIGIOUS LANGUAGE AFTER THE ...
Journal of Literature & Theology, Vol. 6, No. i, March 1992. 'WHAT CAN —AND CANNOT. BE SAID': RELIGIOUS. LANGUAGE AFTER THE. HOLOCAUST. 1. Isabel Wollaston ...
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Ezrahi, Sidra Dekoven By Words Alone: The Holocaust in Literature (London: Chicago University Press, 1980). Felman, Shoshona and Dori Laub, ...
personal.rhul.ac.uk/ uhle/ 012/ MA_Modernity/ Representing%20the%20Holocaust.htm

History & Memory--The Political Aesthetics of Holocaust Literature ...
... A Double Dying: Reflections on Holocaust Literature (Bloomington, 1980); Sidra dekoven Ezrahi, By Words Alone: The Holocaust in Literature (Chicago, ...
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Women & The Holocaust - Personal Reflections
... actions of the National Socialists" (Sidra dekoven Ezrahi, By Words Alone: The Holocaust in Literature [Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980], p. ...
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Inside the 'Shoah': Narrative, Documentation, and Schwarz-Bart's ...
In her introduction to By Words Alone: The Holocaust in Literature (1980), Sidra dekoven Ezrahi again asserts, however, that even within narrative variation ...
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For a discussion of these two terms see Sidra dekoven Ezrahi, By Words Alone: The Holocaust in Literature (Chicago, 1980), 2; and Berel Lang, ...
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THE HOLOCAUST
Sidra dekoven Ezrahi, By Words Alone: The Holocaust in Literature (1980). Lawrence L. Langer, The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination (1975) ...
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Ezrahi, Sidra D. By Words Alone: The Holocaust in Literature. Chicago: University. of Chicago Press, 1982. This literary history of the Holocaust discusses ...
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