Published in Children's Literature in Education
This article reviews a number of works of fiction about the Holocaust intended for children and young adult readers and discusses the strategies used by their authors to educate their readers without overwhelming them with highly emotional information. Several popular and effective strategies are highlighted, along with examples of works of literat...
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Published in Children's Literature in Education
This article examines the consolatory possibilities presented by Markus Zusak’s recent crossover novel The Book Thief, investigating the degree to which the novel delivers the simultaneous consolation and confrontation identified with children’s and young adults’ Holocaust texts by such critics as Adrienne Kertzer and Lawrence Baron. Contending tha...
Published in Neohelicon
In answer to the criticism of binary distinctions of the last decades, my theoretical argument in this paper is that on the cognitive level we are strongly in need of binarism. In my approach binarism is not identical with ontological dualism. It pertains to world orientation, because without the cognitive tools of differentiation life would be cha...
In this part of my text I propose a thesis, that in The Painted Bird presented world is crucially molded by the grotesque pattern, which bares nature of reality as a place evoking repugnance. Next I consider comic element of horriblegrotesque (J. Ruskin) mixed in special way with the horrified and the uncanny (in Freud's interpretation). I made it ...
Originally written in French, The Kindly Ones (2006) is the first major work of the Jewish-American author Jonathan Littell. Its extraordinary critical and commercial success, spawning a series of heated debates, has made this publication one of the most significant literary phenomena of recent years.Taking the Holocaust as its central topic, The K...
Published in Children's Literature in Education
This article discusses the representation of Roma–Sinti (“gypsy”) characters in young adult literature about the Holocaust. It analyzes three primary texts: Jerry Spinelli’s Milkweed (2003), Erich Hackl’s Farewell Sidonia (1991), and Alexander Ramati’s And the Violins Stopped Playing (1985). The article argues that only Ramati’s text gives a detail...
Publikacja dofinansowana przez katedry literaturoznawcze Instytutu Filologii Polskiej Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego.
This text is an introduction to the theme issue of Études arméniennes contemporaines on “Victim Testimony and Understanding Mass Violence”.
Mary Cosgrove seeks to explore literary variations on the theme of melancholy in postward German fiction, mostly in works by Günter Grass, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Peter Weiss, W. G. Sebald, and Iris Hanika. Her visual point of reference throughout is the 1514 engraving by Albrecht Dürer titled “Melencolia I,” itself the subject of numerous scholarly...
