Foregone conclusions : against apocalyptic history /

Criticizes "foreshadowing" in literary works on the Shoah which view it as inevitable, as a foreordained culmination of the entire brutal history of European antisemitism. States that the Shoah was not an unavoidable tragedy, in the literary sense, because the genocide was part of an ongoi...

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Bibliografski detalji
Glavni autor: Bernstein, Michael André, 1947-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Jezik:engleski
Izdano: Berkeley : University of California Press ©1994.
Serija:Contraversions ; 4.
Online pristup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.15552470
Sadržaj:
  • 1. Against Foreshadowing
  • 2. Backshadowing and Apocalyptic History
  • 3. Narrating the Shoah
  • 4. Backshadowing and the Rhetoric of Victimization
  • 5. Sideshadowing and the Principle of the Insufficient Cause
  • 6. (In Place of a) Conclusion: The Unmastered Future.