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History, Literature, Critical Theory
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History, Literature, Critical Theory Paperback - 2013

by LaCapra, Dominick

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Cornell University Press, 2013-05-15. Paperback. Good. 9x6x0. [From the library of noted scholar Gabrielle Spiegel.] Softcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Edges creased. Scattered underlining and markings, presumably by Spiegel.
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  • Title History, Literature, Critical Theory
  • Author LaCapra, Dominick
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Critical
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press
  • Date 2013-05-15
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2206150101
  • ISBN 9780801478659 / 0801478650
  • Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.28 x 6.4 x 0.59 in (23.57 x 16.26 x 1.50 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Literature and history, Violence in literature
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012047659
  • Dewey Decimal Code 809

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In History, Literature, Critical Theory, Dominick LaCapra continues his exploration of the complex relations between history and literature, here considering history as both process and representation. A trio of chapters at the center of the volume concern the ways in which history and literature (particularly the novel) impact and question each other. In one of the chapters LaCapra revisits Gustave Flaubert, pairing him with Joseph Conrad. Other chapters pair J. M. Coetzee and W. G. Sebald, Jonathan Littell's novel, The Kindly Ones, and Saul Friedlander's two-volume, prizewinning history Nazi Germany and the Jews. A recurrent motif of the book is the role of the sacred, its problematic status in sacrifice, its virulent manifestation in social and political violence (notably the Nazi genocide), its role or transformations in literature and art, and its multivalent expressions in "postsecular" hopes, anxieties, and quests. LaCapra concludes the volume with an essay on the place of violence in the thought of Slavoj Zizek. In LaCapra's view Zizek's provocative thought "at times has uncanny echoes of earlier reflections on, or apologies for, political and seemingly regenerative, even sacralized violence."

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About the author

Dominick LaCapra is Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies and Professor of History and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. He is the author or editor of many books, including History and Its Limits: Human, Animal, Violence; History in Transit; and History and Memory after Auschwitz, all from Cornell.

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