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100 1  Klocke, Astrid.
245 14 The concept of black humor and Edgar Hilsenrath's novel Der Nazi und der Friseur / |cAstrid Klocke.
264  1 [Place of publication not identified] : |b[publisher not identified], |c2000.
300    vi, 198 pages
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
502    Thesis (Ph. D.)--Indiana University, 2000.
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-196).
520     This dissertation attempts to define the concept of black humor and its variations within German and American literary criticism. The history of the concept of humor serves as a larger frame of reference. Black humor is distinguished from satire: whereas satire has didactic intentions, based on ethical or religious value systems from which the object of the satirical attack has deviated, black humor sets out to attack the very notion of any set value system. In the second part of this dissertation, Charlie Chaplin's film satire The Great Dictator and Edgar Hilsenrath's Holocaust novel Der Nazi and der Friseur are compared in order to illustrate this difference. The black humor features of Hilsenrath's novel expose the reader to a unique set of challenges: one, to withstand the narrative perspective of an unreliable and despicable perpetrator of atrocities; and, two, to deal with the moral ambiguity of the black humor in light of the Holocaust. This novel thus raises important questions about the limits of representing the Holocaust.
530    Electronic version(s)  |bavailable internally at USHMM.
533    Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services, |d2004. |e23 cm.
590     Dissertations and Theses
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
600 10 Hilsenrath, Edgar |xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 Hilsenrath, Edgar. |tNazi und der Friseur.
655  7 Black humor. |2lcgft
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