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Author:   Marc De Kesel ,  Bettine Siertsema ,  Katarzyna Szurmiak
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   41
Weight:   0.474kg
ISBN:  

9789004280953

ISBN 10:   9004280952
Pages:   206
Publication Date:   01 September 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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The Contributors Introduction, Marc De Kesel & Katarzyna Szurmiak Summary of the Novel, Jan Ceuppens Quod Vide, or the Displacement of Meaning In the Narrative Construction of Love, Dany Nobus Guerrilla War with Words. The Language of Resistance to the Shoah, Olga Kaczmarek Grossman’s White Room and Schulzian Empty Spaces, Katarzyna Szurmiak The Laugh of a God Who Doesn’t Exist, Marc De Kesel The Perpetrator, Bettine Siertsema Diasporic Remarks, Dirk De Schutter The Holocaust’s Muses – On Voices, Appropriation and Misappropriation in Grossman’s Novel and W.G. Sebald’s Prose Fiction, Jan Ceuppens The Novel Form and the Timing of the Nation, Pieter Vermeulen Torag, Dolgan, Ning, Gyoya, Orga - Diaspora Under the Sign of Salmon, Ortwin De Graef On Some Adornean Catchwords, Erik Vogt Bibliography Index

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Marc De Kesel is professor of Philosophy at Saint Paul University in Ottawa, Canada. His field of his research covers continental philosophy, Lacanian theory, Shoah studies, and theories of religion. Recent books: Auschwitz mon amour (on Shoah Reception; in Dutch), Amsterdam: Boom, 2012. Eros & Ethics: Reading Jacques Lacan, Séminaire VII, Albany: SUNY Press, 2009; (in Dutch) Goden breken. Essays over monotheïsme (Destroying Gods: Essays on Monotheism), Amsterdam: Boom, 2010. Bettine Siertsema wrote her PhD thesis on Dutch autobiographical texts on the concentration camps, with special attention to religious and ethical dimensions (Uit de diepten. Vught: Skandalon, 2007, in Dutch). She is now a researcher at the Faculty of Philosophy of VU University in Amsterdam. Her fields of interest are Dutch and international Holocaust literature, and the interface of religion and literature. Katarzyna Szurmiak is a historian currently working in education. She specialises in Jewish history and culture. Her research interests focus mostly on Yiddish language and culture, history of Jews in Poland and memory of the Shoah.

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