| Description |
1 online resource (181 pages) |
| Contents |
On jouissance -- A dandy and Jewish detritus -- The material letter J -- On waste and matter -- Holocaust soap and the story of its production -- The guilty afterlife of the soma -- On contact -- The manuscript lost in Warsaw -- Things, touch, and detachment in Auschwitz -- Coda: the post-Holocaust object |
| Summary |
In stark contrast to the widespread preoccupation with the wartime looting of priceless works of art, Bozena Shallcross focuses on the meaning of ordinary objects -- pots, eyeglasses, shoes, clothing, kitchen utensils -- tangible vestiges of a once-lived reality, which she reads here as cultural texts. Shallcross delineates the ways in which Holocaust objects are represented in Polish and Polish-Jewish texts written during or shortly after World War II. These representational strategies are distilled from |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Polish literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Polish literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland.
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Reality in literature.
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Holocaust
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TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature
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Polish literature
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Polish literature -- Jewish authors
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Reality in literature
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Poland
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010031793 |
| ISBN |
9780253005090 |
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0253005094 |
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