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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Autore principale: Bernstein, Michael André, 1947-
Natura: Licensed eBooks
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Berkeley : University of California Press ©1994.
Serie:Contraversions ; 4.
Accesso online:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.15552470
Sommario:
  • 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.