EAN: 9783838209524

THE HOLOCAUST IN THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN LITERATUR...

This volume addresses a problem of high controversy: Relating the Holocaust to poetic and
aesthetic phenomena has often been seen as a taboo  as only authentic testimonies  documents 
or at least 'unliterary'  prosaic approaches were considered appropriate for dealing with the
topic. 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 regarded as important
instruments to evoke the attention required for keeping the cataclysm in the collective memory.
The contributions of the volume using examples predominantly from Polish  Czech  and German
Holocaust literature and culture focus on selected aspects of this complex of problems  such
as: poetry of concentration camp detainees  lyrical poetry about the Holocaust  poetical
tendencies in narrative literature and drama  'ornamental prose' about the Holocaust  devices
and functions of aestheticization in Holocaust literature and culture.

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