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Die Erforschung der Holocaustliteratur hat Hochkonjunktur. Was aber ist unter dem Begriff eigentlich zu verstehen? Wo ist seine Verwendung sinnvoll, wo stößt sie an Grenzen? Bislang wurde der Terminus weitgehend unreflektiert benutzt, Versuche einer Konzeptualisierung haben in Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft kaum stattgefunden. Insofern beschreitet der vorliegende Band neue Wege. Die Beiträge lassen anhand unterschiedlicher methodischer Näherungen und auf der Grundlage exemplarischen Textmaterials ein umfassendes Bild von der Reichweite und den Grenzen des Begriffs Holocaustliteratur als eines literaturwissenschaftlichen Konzepts entstehen. Dabei wird hinterfragt, wo Funktionalität un...
Das Bulletin wird im Auftrage des Slavistenverbandes von Daniel Bunčić sowie dem Redaktionskollegium Bernhard Brehmer, Hermann Fegert, Christoph Garstka, Klavdia Smola, Anna-Maria Sonnemann, Dirk Uffelmann und Monika Wingender herausgegeben. Die Publikation bietet alljährlich aktuelle Informationen zu den Slavistik-Standorten in Deutschland, zu slavistischen Forschungen und Veröffentlichungen, zu Tagungen, Kooperationen, Studiengängen und einschlägigen Entwicklungen im Fach. Der aktuelle Band würdigt Fachvertreter, während sich Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen und -wissenschaftler mit einem Kurzporträt selbst vorstellen. Das Bulletin ist zugleich ein Forum für kritische Auseinandersetzungen in und mit dem Fach und beschränkt sich dabei nicht auf nationale Grenzen.
The Handbook of Polish, Czech, and Slovak Holocaust Fiction aims to increase the visibility and show the versatility of works from East-Central European countries. It is the first encyclopedic work to bridge the gap between the literary production of countries that are considered to be main sites of the Holocaust and their recognition in international academic and public discourse. It contains over 100 entries offering not only facts about the content and motifs but also pointing out the characteristic fictional features of each work and its meaning for academic discourse and wider reception in the country of origin and abroad. The publication will appeal to the academic and broader public i...
Relating the Holocaust to poetic and aesthetic phenomena has often been considered taboo, as only authentic testimony, documents, or at least ‘unliterary’, prosaic approaches were seen as appropriate. However, from the very beginning of Holocaust literature and culture, there were tendencies towards literarization, poetization, and ornamentalization. Nowadays, aesthetic approaches—also in provocative, taboo-breaking ways—are more and more frequently encountered and seen as important ways to evoke the attention required to keep the cataclysm alive in popular memory. The essays in this volume use examples predominantly from Polish, Czech, and German Holocaust literature and culture to discuss this controversial subject. Topics include the poetry of concentration camp detainees, lyrical poetry about the Holocaust, poetic tendencies in narrative literature and drama, ornamental prose about the Holocaust, and the devices and functions of aestheticization in Holocaust literature and culture.
Die zweibändige Edition gibt für das Gebiet der Literatur- und Kulturwissen-schaft im Bereich Bohemistik Einblicke in den aktuellen Stand des Fachs. Dabei werden die Wissensbestände und die Reserven der Forschung zur Literatur und Kultur der Tschechischen Republik und der historischen Böhmischen Länder mit Blick auf Brennpunkte ausgelotet, die aus literatur- und kulturhistorischer Sicht für die Forschung und Lehre bedeutsam sind. Die Artikel führen in grundlegende Problemkomplexe ein, mit Schwerpunkt auf der Entwicklung von der Wende des 18./19. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart. Während der erste Band philologischen Fragestellungen einschließlich der Entwicklung von Stilforma-tionen, ...
Few scholarly fields have developed in recent decades as rapidly and vigorously as Holocaust Studies. At the start of the twenty-first century, the persecution and murder perpetrated by the Nazi regime have become the subjects of an enormous literature in multiple academic disciplines and a touchstone of public and intellectual discourse in such diverse fields as politics, ethics and religion. Forward-looking and multi-disciplinary, this handbook draws on the work of an international team of forty-seven outstanding scholars. The handbook is thematically divided into five broad sections. Part One, Enablers, concentrates on the broad and necessary contextual conditions for the Holocaust. Part ...
This series of HANDBOOKS OF LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action and interaction. For "classic" linguistics there appears to be a need for a review of the state of the art which will provide a reference base for the rapid advances in research undertaken from a variety of theoretical standpoints, while in the more recent branches of communication science the handbooks will give researchers both an verview and ...
Published by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, and Yad Vashem, Jerusalem “We were both small nations whose existence could never be taken for granted,” Vaclav Havel said of the Czechs and the Jews of Israel in 1990, and indeed, the complex and intimate link between the fortunes of these two peoples is unique in European history. This book, by one of the world’s leading authorities on the history of Czech and Slovak Jewry during the Nazi period, is the first to thoroughly document this singular relationship and to trace its impact, both practical and profound, on the fate of the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia during the Holocaust. Livia Rothkirchen provides a detailed and comprehe...