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Author:   Rudolf Freiburg ,  Gerd Bayer
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2021
Weight:   0.637kg
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9783030834210

ISBN 10:   3030834212
Pages:   356
Publication Date:   15 December 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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.

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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).

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