Elrud Ibsch

Douwe Wessel Fokkema

The authors present a new perspective on a wide range of issues in the study of literature and culture. Some of the topics discussed, such as interpretation, canon formation, and literary historiography, belong to the traditional domain of literary studies. Others cultural identity, convention, systems theory, and empirical methods originate in the social sciences and are now being integrated into the humanities. By referring to the work of authors as widely apart as Hayden White, Edward Said, Fredric Jameson, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Reinhart Koselleck, Pierre Bourdieu, Niklas Luhmann, Siegfried Schmidt, Norbert Groeben, and many others, the full complexity of the field of literary studies becomes apparent.The authors argue for a distinction between analysis of literary systems on the one hand and critical intervention on the other. By distinguishing between research and criticism, between knowledge and commitment, they offer new ways for literary studies as well as for cultural critique.

A Problem-oriented Approach to Literary Studies

Knowledge and Commitment

Dick H. Schram

Anja de Feijter

voorstellingen van de Tweede Wereldoorlog in literatuur en geschiedenis

De Lange schaduw van vijftig jaar

"'Overleven in verhalen' biedt een vergelijkend historisch overzicht van literatuur over de Shoah van voornamelijk Europese en Israëlische auteurs. Het boek schetst een breed panorama dat laat zien hoe verschillende generaties auteurs de Holocaust tot uitdrukking hebben gebracht. Er is aandacht voor de literatuur van ooggetuigen (Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, Jean Améry, Paul Steinberg), voor de literatuur van auteurs die ten tijde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog kinderen waren (Jona Oberski, Ischa Meijer, Ruth Klüger, Aharon Appelfeld, Saul Friedländer, Lisette Lewin, Chaja Polak, Judith Herzberg) en voor de overgang van autobiografie naar fictieve verbeelding (Imre Kertész). Ook de omgekeerde beweging van fictie naar biografie komt aan de orde (Amos Oz) ..."--Page 4 of cover.

Overleven in verhalen: van ooggetuigen naar 'jonge wilden'. Joodse schrijvers over de Shoah

Schwerpunkte der Literaturwissenschaft ausserhalb des deutschen Sprachraums

Literair-historische studie over de belangrijkste vernieuwende auteurs in de periode 1910-1940.

Het modernisme in de Europese letterkunde

Gerard Steen

Proceedings of the Second IGEL-conference Amsterdam 1989

Empirical Studies of Literature

Ferdinand van Ingen

Literatur und politische Aktualität

A Mainstream in European Literature, 1910-1940

Modernist Conjectures

International Comparative Literature Association. Congress

The traumatic experiences of persecution and genocide have changed traditional views of literature. The discussion of historical truth versus aesthetic autonomy takes an unexpected turn when confronted with the experiences of the victims of the Holocaust, the Gulag Archipelago, the Cultural Revolution, Apartheid and other crimes against humanity. The question is whether - and, if so, to what extent - literary imagination may depart from historical truth. In general, the first reactions to traumatic historical experiences are autobiographical statements, written by witnesses of the events. However, the second and third generations, the sons and daughters of the victims as well as of the victimizers, tend to free themselves from this generic restriction and claim their own way of remembering the history of their parents and grandparents. They explore their own limits of representation, and feel free to use a variety of genres; they turn to either realist or postmodernist, ironic or grotesque modes of writing.

Literature and Traumatic Experiences

The Conscience of Humankind

Elrud Ibsch

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