TY  - BOOK
AU  - Patterson,David
TI  - The shriek of silence: a phenomenology of the Holocaust novel 
SN  - 9780813161495
AV  - PN56.H55 P38 2015 
U1  - 809/.93358 20
PY  - 2015///], ©1992
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
KW  - Jewish fiction
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Holocauste, 1939-1945, dans la littérature
KW  - Roman juif
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Literary
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Holocaust
KW  - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Prologue; 1 Theoretical Background; 2 The Word in Exile; 3 The Death of the Father; 4 The Death of the Child; 5 The Splitting of the Self; 6 The Resurrection of the Self; 7 The Implication of the Reader; Epilogue; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
N2  - ""In the Holocaust novel, silence is always a character, and the word is always its subject matter."" So writes David Patterson in this profound and original study of more than thirty important writers. Contrary to existing views, he argues, the Holocaust novel is not an attempt to depict an unimaginable reality or an ineffable horror. It is, rather, an endeavor to fetch the word from silence and restore it to meaning, to resurrect the human soul, to regenerate the relation between the self and God, the self and other, the self and itself. This book is less a critical study in the usual sense t
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