H. G. Adler: Life, Literature, Legacy (cultural Expressions)

Synopsis

H. G. Adler: Life, Literature, Legacy Is The First Collection Of Essays In English Dedicated To The Life And Work Of German-language Author H. G. Adler. Among The International Scholars Of German, Jewish, And Holocaust Literature And History Who Reveal The Range Of Adler{u2019}s Legacy Across Genres Are Adler{u2019}s Son, Jeremy Adler, And Peter Filkins, Translator Of Adler{u2019}s Trilogy, Panorama (the Journey). Together, The Essays Examine Adler{u2019}s Writing In Relation To His Life, Especially His Memory As A Survivor Of The Nazi Death Camps And His Posthumous Recognition For Having Produced A Gesamkunstwerk, An Aesthetic Synthesis Of The Shoah. The Book Carries The Moral Charge Of Adler{u2019}s Work, Moving Beyond Testimony To A Complex Dialectic Between Fact And Fiction, Exploring Adler{u2019}s Experiments With Voice And The Ethical Work Of Literary Engagement With The Shoah. -- Introduction : Encountering H.g. Adler / Julia Creet, Sara R. Horowitz, And Amira Bojadzija-dan -- The World Of My Father's Memory Writing : The Gesamtkunstwerk Of H.g. Adler / Jeremy Adler -- The Self Positioned, The (de)posited Self, The Soul Released : The Uses Of Biography In H.g. Adler's Shoah Trilogy / Peter Filkins -- Shaping Survival Through Writing : H.g. Adler's Correspondence With Bettina Gross, 1945-1947 / Sven Kramer -- Recovered Gems : Neglect And Recovery Of Holocaust Fiction / Sara R. Horowitz -- H.g. Adler And First-person History / Omer Bartov -- Holocaust Fact And Holocaust Fiction : The Dual Vision Of H.g. Adler / Lawrence L. Langer -- From Panorama To The Journey : Repetition And Intensification Of Traumatic Memory / Amira Bojadzija-dan -- Double Exposure In The Absence Of Verbs : Repossessing The Image Of Self In H.g. Adler's The Journey / Emily Budick -- A Dialectic Of The Deictic : Pronouns And Persons In H.g. Adler's The Journey / Julia Creet -- I Have Lost Myself : H.g. Adler's Novel The Wall And The Damaged Identity Of The Survivor / Ruth Vogel-klein -- Prague Circles : H.g. Adler's Kafkaesque Hope / Helen Finch -- Die Grenzen Des Sagbaren : Toward A Political Philology In H.g. Adler's Reflections On Language / Lynn L. Wolff -- Here I Stand: The Poetry Of H.g. Adler / Katrin Kohl -- An Imaginative Dialogue Between H.g. Adler And Psychoanalysis : Aesthetic Themes Of Uncertainty, Transformation, And Binding / Deborah P. Britzman -- The Archive And The Image : H.g. Adler's Snapshots Of Traumatic History / Dorota Glowacka -- Reading H.g. Adler (tangentially) / Leslie Morris -- Major Works By H.g. Adler. Edited By Julia Creet, Sara R. Horowitz, And Amira Bojadzija-dan. The Essays In This Volume Developed From An International Symposium, H. G. Adler: 'life, Literature, Legacy Convened At The Israel And Golda Koschitzky Centre For Jewish Studies At York University University In Toronto, Canada, On November 11 And 12, 2012--acknowledgements. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.