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The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culture delves into the complex problems involved in all attempts to survive. The essays analyze survival in contemporary prose narratives, short stories, poems, dramas, and theoretical texts, but also in films and other modes of cultural practices. Addressing diverse topics such as memory and forgetting in Holocaust narratives, stories of refugees and asylum seekers, and representations of war, the ethical implications involved in survival in texts and media are brought into a transnational critical discussion. The volume will be of potential interest to a wide range of critics working on ethical issues, the body, and the politics of art and literature.

Über den Autor

Rudolf Freiburg is Professor of English literature at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. He is co-editor and editor of several books, including Swift: The Enigmatic Dean (1998), "But Vindicate the Ways of God to Man": Literature and Theodicy (2004), Kultbücher (2004), Literatur und Holocaust (2009), Träume (2015), Unendlichkeit (2016), D@tenflut (2017), Sprachwelten (2018) and Täuschungen (2019). He has written many articles on eighteenth-century literature (Joseph Addison, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson), and contemporary literature (John Fowles, Julian Barnes, Ian McEwan, Sebastian Barry).

Gerd Bayer is Professor of English literature and culture at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. He has published on contemporary and early modern literature, including Novel Horizons: The Genre Making of Restoration Fiction (2015) and on Holocaustliterature and film, most recently as guest editor of a special issue for Holocaust Studies (UK).

Zusammenfassung

Builds on research in trauma studies and memory studies

Studies a range of texts including documentary film, biography, short stories, and novels

Examines the ethics and aesthetics involved in memorializing the past in literature and culture

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Survival: An Introductory Essay.- Part I. Survival and the Group.- 2. The Visibility of Survival: Even the Dogs and Jon McGregor's Ethics of Attention.- 3. "Survivors all": Affirmative Connections in Novels by Julian Barnes and Caryl Phillips.- 4. Feats of Survival: Refugee Writing and the Ethics of Representation.- 5. Surviving Trauma in the Female Neo-slave Narrative: Sara Collins's Neo-gothic The Confessions of Frannie Langton.- Part II. Survival and the Individual.- 6. "That was what all men became: techniques for survival": The Paradoxical Notion of Survival in Julian Barnes's The Noise of Time.- 7. Vulnerability, Empathy, and the Ethics of Survival in Graham Swift's Wish You Were Here.- 8. Stories of Dis-ease: Ethics and Survival in Dementia Narratives.- 9. Surviving: Jenny Diski, Illness, and Gratitude.- 10. Environmental Ethics of Survival: Case Study Analysis of I am Legend and The Revenant.- Part III Survival and the Holocaust.- 11. Close Reading of a Title: On Survival in Auschwitz.- 12. Narrative Closure and the "Whew" Effect: The Ethics of Reading Narratives of Survival of the Holocaust.- 13. With All the Force of Literalness: Ruth Klüger's Survivor Testimonies in Erwin Leiser's We Were Ten Brothers and Thomas Mitscherlich's Journeys into Life.- 14. "The Four Brothers": Claude Lanzmann's War Refugee Board Interviews.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika , Geisteswissenschaften , Kunst , Musik
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	xi 356 S. 1 s/w Illustr. 356 p. 1 illus.
ISBN-13:	9783030834241
ISBN-10:	3030834247
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion:	Bayer, Gerd Freiburg, Rudolf
Herausgeber:	Rudolf Freiburg/Gerd Bayer
Auflage:	1st ed. 2021
Hersteller:	Springer Nature Switzerland Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	210 x 148 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Gerd Bayer (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	16.12.2022
Gewicht:	0,476 kg

Artikel-ID: 125823934