Word by word : the language of memory / Jonathan Morse

Publication | Library Call Number: PS169.H5 M67 1990

Format: Book
Author/Creator: Morse, Jonathan.
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, c1990
Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-251) and index
Language: English

Physical Description: xv, 257 p. ; 24 cm
Contents: Introduction : the syntax of time
The comic history of this man Goddard
Coat of arms : the virtual history of the undivided mind
The joke about the man from the east
Outtakes : virtual history, genre, and the dissociation of sensibility
Picture words (I) : Aharon Appelfeld, Vasily Grossman, John Dos Passos, and the history of image
Picture words (II) : Roman Vishniac, Claude Lanzmann, and the abolition of history
Emily Dickinson : province, ghetto, and archive
Sermon with footnote
Archive, body, and possibility
The waste land : history in the Eliot era
History in the waste land : "tradition and the individual talent"
History and text : a theory.
ISBN: 080142383X
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-251) and index.
Subjects: American literature--History and criticism.
Literature and history--United States.
History in literature.
Memory in literature.
Literature and history.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
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