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Der Band bietet eine Einführung in Standardwerke der Literaturtheorie und stellt dabei die Frage nach dem Zusammenhang von Erfahrungsgeschichte und wissenschaftlichem Erkenntnisinteresse. Es ist teilweise aus dem Blick geraten, wie prägend die Arbeiten jüdischer Literaturwissenschaftlerinnen und –wissenschaftler für die theoretische Fundierung und institutionelle Verankerung der Geisteswissenschaften im 20. Jahrhundert gewesen ist. Der Band möchte an diese Entwicklung erinnern, dabei aber keine schlichte Gleichung von Herkunft, Zugehörigkeit und Denkstil unternehmen, sondern einer Textgelehrsamkeit nachgehen, die neue Zugänge zur Literatur und zur Literaturwissenschaft formte. Works that had a considerable impact on the development of the humanities in the twentieth century emerged against the backdrop of a culture of knowledge and an epistemological history shaped by Judaism. This volume aims to document this development without simply comparing origins, belonging, and styles of thought, instead tracing a textual scholarship that provided new access to literature and literary studies.

LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish. --- Jewish literature. --- culture of knowledge, twentieth century.

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The posthumous publication of Emmanuel Levinas’s wartime diaries, postwar lectures, and drafts for two novels afford new approaches to understanding the relationship between literature, philosophy, and religion. This volume gathers an international list of experts to examine new questions raised by Levinas’s deep and creative experiment in thinking at the intersection of literature, philosophy, and religion. Chapters address the role and significance of poetry, narrative, and metaphor in accessing the ethical sense of ordinary life; Levinas's critical engagement with authors such as Leon Bloy, Paul Celan, Vassily Grossman, Marcel Proust, and Maurice Blanchot; analyses of Levinas’s draft novels Eros ou Triple opulence and La Dame de chez Wepler; and the application of Levinas's thought in reading contemporary authors such as Ian McEwen and Cormac McCarthy. Contributors include Danielle Cohen-Levinas, Kevin Hart, Eric Hoppenot, Vivian Liska, Jean-Luc Nancy and François-David Sebbah, among others.

LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish. --- Levinas. --- Nancy. --- literature. --- Literature--Philosophy --- Jewish literature --- Lévinas, Emmanuel, - 1906-1995 --- Filosofie --- 111.6

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Der Band bietet zwei Zugänge zur Literatur der Shoah: Er widmet sich einzelnen Autoren und neuen Forschungsperspektiven. Mit H. G. Adler und Thomas Harlan stellt er zunächst zwei wenig beachtete Schriftsteller vor. Von Adler, einem Überlebenden der Shoah aus Prag, sind noch immer nicht alle Werke publiziert - darunter eine bedeutende Korrespondenz aus der Nachkriegszeit. Harlan setzte sich zeitlebens mit dem Genozid an den europäischen Juden auseinander - nicht zuletzt, weil sein Vater, Veit Harlan, den Massenmord durch seine Filme ideologisch vorbereitet hatte. Intensiv diskutiert wurde dagegen über Peter Weiss' spätes Hauptwerk Die Ästhetik des Widerstands. Unter dem Aspekt der Ko-Erinnerung an die Shoah wird es neu perspektiviert. Der zweite Schwerpunkt entwirft und vertieft neue theoretische Orientierungen der Holocaust Studies. Mit Hilfe von Konzepten wie Ko-Erinnerung, Tabu und Transnationalität tragen die Studien zur Neuvermessung des Forschungsgebiets bei. Neben dem Stellenwert der Übersetzungen für die Rezeption der Shoah-Literatur in Deutschland wird auch der konstitutiv transnationale Charakter dieser Literatur herausgearbeitet. Ein grundsätzlicher Blick auf den Zusammenhang von Sprache und Diktatur beschließt den Band.

History / Holocaust --- Literary Criticism / Jewish --- Literature --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- History and criticism --- Appraisal --- Evaluation

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This is a groundbreaking study of the most important contemporary American novelist, Philip Roth. Reading the author alongside a number of his contemporaries, and focusing particularly on his later fiction, this book offers a highly accessible, informative and persuasive view of Roth as an intellectually adventurous and stylistically brilliant writer who constantly reinvents himself in surprising ways. At the heart of this book are a number of detailed and nuanced readings of Roth's works both in terms of their relationships with each other and with fiction by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Thomas Pynch

English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- Roth, Philip --- Roth, Philip Milton --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Rʺut, Bhilip --- Рот, Филип --- Rot, Filip --- רות, פיליפ --- ロス, フィリップ --- American fiction --- Literature --- Literature: History & Criticism --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish --- Literature: history & criticism --- History and criticism. --- American novelist. --- Bret Easton Ellis. --- Howard Jacobson. --- Nathaniel Hawthorne. --- Philip Roth. --- Stanley Elkin. --- Thomas Pynchon. --- Tim O'Brien. --- paradox. --- rhetorical device.

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Nelly Sachs (1891-1970) has long been regarded as one of the most significant Holocaust poets. Her conception of language and words as a landscape has been understood by scholars and critics as an exilic ersatz Heimat for the lost German homeland of a displaced poet. This reading, however, is based entirely on her postwar poems. Such an isolated approach to her complex body of work is increasingly historically problematic; it is also at odds with Sachs's generally cyclical poetic process.
In 'The Space of Words', Jennifer Hoyer offers the first sustained critical analysis of Sachs's largely unanalyzed prewar poetry and prose, as well as the first analysis that examines structural and thematic ties between the prewar works and the Nobel-Prize-winning postwar poetry. Through close readings of both Sachs's prewar and postwar works, Hoyer reveals a diasporic rather than exilic conception of the landscape of language, a position of constant wandering rather than static longing for return. This diasporic poetics promotes the intellectual and linguistic power of the wanderer and opens new insights into Sachs's essential significance as a Holocaust poet and a twentieth-century German-Jewish writer wary of the link of literary language to geopolitics and the narrative of nations. Jennifer Hoyer is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Arkansas.

Sachs, Nelly --- Zaḳs, Neli --- Zaks, Nelli --- זאקס, נעלי --- זק״ש, נלי --- Criticism and interpretation. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish. --- English studies. --- German studies. --- Holocaust poets. --- Jewish studies. --- Nelly Sachs. --- holocaust. --- language studies. --- language. --- linguistics. --- modern history. --- modern poetry. --- poetry. --- postwar poetry. --- twentieth century. --- world history. --- world war II.