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Author | : Peter Davies |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1640140298 |
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A growing body of scholarship is making visible the contribution of translators to the creation, preservation, and transmission of knowledge about the Holocaust. The discussion has tended to be theoretical or to concentrate on exposing the "distorted" translations of texts by important witnesses such as Anne Frank or Elie Wiesel. There is therefore a need for a positive, concrete, and contextually aware approach to the translation of Holocaust testimonies that acknowledges the achievements of translators while being sensitive to the consequences of particular translation strategies. Peter Davies's study proceeds from the assumption that translators are active co-creators whose work does not simply mediate a pre-existing text, but creates a representation of that text for a new readership in a specific context. Translators of Holocaust testimonies, then, provide a form of textual commentary that works through ideas about witnessing, historical truth, and the meaning of the Holocaust. In this way they are important co-creators of knowledge about the Holocaust and its legacy. The study focuses on translations between English and German, and from other languages (principally French, Russian, and Polish) into English and German. It works through a number of case studies, showing how making translation and its effects visible contributes to a clearer understanding of how knowledge about the Holocaust has been and continues to be created and mediated. Peter Davies is Professor of German at the University of Edinburgh.
Author | : Michael Bernard-Donals |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2001-10-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780791451502 |
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Examines the ethical and pedagogical stakes of representing the Holocaust in books, films, and museum exhibits.
Author | : Ariel Burger |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1328802698 |
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"In the vein of Tuesdays with Morrie, a devoted protaegae and friend of one of the world's great thinkers takes us into the sacred space of the classroom, showing Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elie Wiesel not only as an extraordinary human being, but as a master teacher"--
Author | : Carolyn Forché |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 672 |
Release | : 2014-01-27 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0393347664 |
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A groundbreaking anthology containing the work of poets who have witnessed war, imprisonment, torture, and slavery. A companion volume to Against Forgetting, Poetry of Witness is the first anthology to reveal a tradition that runs through English-language poetry. The 300 poems collected here were composed at an extreme of human endurance—while their authors awaited execution, endured imprisonment, fought on the battlefield, or labored on the brink of breakdown or death. All bear witness to historical events and the irresistibility of their impact. Alongside Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth, this volume includes such writers as Anne Askew, tortured and executed for her religious beliefs during the reign of Henry VIII; Phillis Wheatley, abducted by slave traders; Samuel Bamford, present at the Peterloo Massacre in 1819; William Blake, who witnessed the Gordon Riots of 1780; and Samuel Menashe, survivor of the Battle of the Bulge. Poetry of Witness argues that such poets are a perennial feature of human history, and it presents the best of that tradition, proving that their work ranks alongside the greatest in the language.
Author | : Michael Bernard-Donals |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0791489671 |
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The Holocaust presents an immense challenge to those who would represent it or teach it through fiction, film, or historical accounts. Even the testimonies of those who were there provide only a glimpse of the disaster to those who were not. Between Witness and Testimony investigates the difficulties inherent in the obligation to bear witness to events that seem not just unspeakable but also unthinkable. The authors examine films, fictional narratives, survivor testimonies, and the museums at Yad Vashem and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in order to establish an ethics of Holocaust representation. Traversing the disciplines of history, philosophy, religious studies, and literary and cultural theory, the authors suggest that while no account adequately provides access to what Adorno called "the extremity that eludes the concept," we are still obliged to testify, to put into language what history cannot contain.
Author | : Joshua M. Greene |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |
ISBN | : 9780732910266 |
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First published in the USA. Presents first-person accounts by 27 people of their experiences during the Holocaust. Jews, Gentiles, Americans, a member of the Hitler Youth, a Jesuit priest, resistance fighters and child survivors tell of life under the Nazis in ghettos, concentration camps and death camps and describe their emotions and actions following liberation. Includes references and an index.
Author | : Michal Givoni |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2016-10-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108107966 |
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During the twentieth century, witnessing grew to be not just a widespread solution for coping with political atrocities but also an intricate problem. As the personal experience of victims, soldiers, and aid workers acquired unparalleled authority as a source of moral and political truth, the capacity to generate adequate testimonies based on this experience was repeatedly called into question. Michal Givoni's book follows the trail of the problems, torments, and crises that became commingled with witnessing to genocide, disaster, and war over the course of the twentieth century. By juxtaposing episodes of reflexive witnessing to the Great War, the Jewish Holocaust, and third world emergencies, The Care of the Witness explores the shifting roles and responsibilities of witnesses in history and the contribution that the troubles of witnessing made to the ethical consolidation of the witness as the leading figure of nongovernmental politics.
Author | : Lea Wernick Fridman |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0791492443 |
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Narratives of large-scale historical horror and trauma cross a terrible boundary in representation. What forms are adequate to such experience? What are the forms that such narratives actually take? Fridman is fascinated by the boundary that separates the representable from the unrepresentable and by the sense that literary works on either side of this boundary are governed by a different dynamic and set of rules from one another. Close readings of works by Aharon Appelfeld, Tadeusz Borowski, Paul Celan, Charlotte Delbo, Jerzy Kosinski, Claude Lanzmann, Dan Pagis, Piotr Rawicz, André Schwarz-Bart, and Elie Wiesel explore the inventive means by which these Holocaust writers wrestle with experiences that, in a very real sense, cannot be put into words. A new reading of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness sets the stage for comparative and far-reaching literary insights into the notion and conception of traumatic narrative.
Author | : Francis Collins |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2008-09-04 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1847396151 |
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Dr Francis S. Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, is one of the world's leading scientists, working at the cutting edge of the study of DNA, the code of life. Yet he is also a man of unshakable faith in God. How does he reconcile the seemingly unreconcilable? In THE LANGUAGE OF GOD he explains his own journey from atheism to faith, and then takes the reader on a stunning tour of modern science to show that physics, chemistry and biology -- indeed, reason itself -- are not incompatible with belief. His book is essential reading for anyone who wonders about the deepest questions of all: why are we here? How did we get here? And what does life mean?
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2019-11-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004412557 |
Download The Ancient Art of Persuasion across Genres and Topics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is an original collection of essays that contribute to a developing appreciation of persuasion across ancient genres (mainly oratory, historiography, poetry) and a wide diversity of interdisciplinary topics (performance, language, style, emotions, gender, argumentation and narrative, politics).