History, literature, critical theory - LaCapra, Dominick, 1939- (Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013)
The mutual interrogation of history and literature -- The quest! the quest! : Conrad and Flaubert -- Coetzee, Sebald, and the narrative of trauma -- Historical and literary approaches to the "final solution" : Saul Friedländer and Jonathan Littell -- The literary, the historical, and the sacred : the question of Nazism -- Epilogue : recent figurations of trauma and violence : tarrying with Zizek.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-230) and index.
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Keywords: Literature and history; Literature, Modern -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Fiction -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Violence in literature; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography; English literature