Overview
- Builds on research in trauma studies and memory studies
- Studies a range of texts including documentary film, biography, short stories, and novels
- Examines the ethics and aesthetics involved in memorializing the past in literature and culture
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Survival and the Group
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Survival and the Individual
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Survival and the Holocaust
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About this book
The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culture delves into the complex problems involved in all attempts to survive. The essays analyze survival in contemporary prose narratives, short stories, poems, dramas, and theoretical texts, but also in films and other modes of cultural practices. Addressing diverse topics such as memory and forgetting in Holocaust narratives, stories of refugees and asylum seekers, and representations of war, the ethical implications involved in survival in texts and media are brought into a transnational critical discussion. The volume will be of potential interest to a wide range of critics working on ethical issues, the body, and the politics of art and literature.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culture
Editors: Rudolf Freiburg, Gerd Bayer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83422-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83421-0Published: 15 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83424-1Published: 16 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-83422-7Published: 14 December 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 356
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Contemporary Literature, Literary Theory, Memory Studies, History of World War II and the Holocaust, Ethics, Cultural Heritage