The Word in Exile: A Phenomenology of Silence in the Holocaust Novel
This essay draws on some fifteen Holocaust novels to argue that the problem confronting the novelist is not the breakdown of a link between reality and imagination but the restoration of the relation between word and meaning. When that relation collapses, the word goes into exile, leaving a silence...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1993
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 1993, Volume: 7, Issue: 3, Pages: 402-420 |
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| Summary: | This essay draws on some fifteen Holocaust novels to argue that the problem confronting the novelist is not the breakdown of a link between reality and imagination but the restoration of the relation between word and meaning. When that relation collapses, the word goes into exile, leaving a silence to which the novelist would impart an eloquence; only when silence may thus speak can meaning be returned to the word. In Its phenomenological approach, the essay examines silence as a subtext that reveals what transpires in the novel's creation and what is called for in the reader's response. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/7.3.402 |