The Cambridge Companion To Primo Levi

Author : Robert S. C. Gordon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827409

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The Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi by Robert S. C. Gordon Pdf

Primo Levi (1919–87) was the author of a rich body of work, including memoirs and reflections on Auschwitz, poetry, science fiction, historical fiction and essays. In particular, his lucid and direct accounts of his time at Auschwitz, begun immediately after liberation in 1945 and sustained until weeks before his suicide in 1987, has made him one of the most admired of all Holocaust writer-survivors and one of the best guides we have for the interrogation of that horrific event. But there is also more to Levi than the voice of the witness. He has increasingly come to be recognised as one of the major literary voices of the twentieth century. This Companion brings together leading specialists on Levi and scholars in the fields of Holocaust studies, Italian literature and language, and literature and science, to offer a stimulating introduction to all aspects of the work of this extraordinary writer.

Author : Robert Samuel Clive Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1139817345

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The Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi by Robert Samuel Clive Gordon Pdf

Primo Levi (1919-1987) was the author of a rich body of work, including memoirs and reflections on Auschwitz, poetry, science fiction, historical fiction and essays. In particular, his lucid and direct accounts of his time at Auschwitz, begun immediately after liberation in 1945 and sustained until weeks before his suicide in 1987, has made him one of the most admired of all Holocaust writer-survivors and one of the best guides we have for the interrogation of that horrific event. But there is also more to Levi than the voice of the witness. He has increasingly come to be recognised as one of the major literary voices of the twentieth century. This Companion brings together leading specialists on Levi and scholars in the fields of Holocaust studies, Italian literature and language, and literature and science, to offer a stimulating introduction to all aspects of the work of this extraordinary writer.

Author : Peter Bondanella,Andrea Ciccarelli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521669626

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The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel by Peter Bondanella,Andrea Ciccarelli Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the Italian novel from its early modern origin to the contemporary era. Contributions cover a wide range of topics including the theory of the novel in Italy, the historical novel, realism, modernism, postmodernism, neorealism, and film and the novel. The contributors are distinguished scholars from the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, and Australia. Novelists examined include some of the most influential and important of the twentieth century inside and outside Italy: Luigi Pirandello, Primo Levi, Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino. This is a unique examination of the Italian Novel, and will prove invaluable to students and specialists alike. Readers will gain a keen sense of the vitality of the Italian novel throughout its history and a clear picture of the debates and criticism that have surrounded its development.

Author : Marina MacKay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521887557

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The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II by Marina MacKay Pdf

An overview of writing about the war from a global perspective, aimed at students of modern literature.

Author : Eva-Marie Kröller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107159624

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The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature by Eva-Marie Kröller Pdf

A fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.

Author : Boris Wiseman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139827478

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The Cambridge Companion to Lévi-Strauss by Boris Wiseman Pdf

Claude Lévi-Strauss is one of the major thinkers of the modern age. Regarded as a crucial figure in the development of structuralism, his writings are studied across a wide range of disciplines, including anthropology, philosophy and literary studies. The Cambridge Companion to Lévi-Strauss presents a major reassessment of his work and influence. The fifteen specially-commissioned essays in this volume engage with the controversies that have surrounded his ideas, and they probe the concealed influences and clichés that have obscured a true understanding of his work. The contributors are experts drawn from a number of fields, demonstrating the durability and importance of Lévi-Strauss's work in the academy. Written for students and researchers alike, these incisive, jargon-free essays will be essential reading for anybody who wishes to gain a deeper understanding of this important thinker.

Author : Primo Levi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780684826806

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Survival In Auschwitz by Primo Levi Pdf

A work by the Italian-Jewish writer, Primo Levi. It describes his arrest as a member of the Italian anti-fascist resistance during the Second World War, and his incarceration in the Auschwitz concentration camp from February 1944 until the camp was liberated on 27 January 1945.

Author : Maria DiBattista,Emily O. Wittman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107028104

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The Cambridge Companion to Autobiography by Maria DiBattista,Emily O. Wittman Pdf

A historical overview of autobiography from the works of Augustine, Montaigne, and Rousseau to the Romantic, Victorian, and modern eras.

Author : Marina MacKay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139828452

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The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II by Marina MacKay Pdf

The literature of World War II has emerged as an accomplished, moving, and challenging body of work, produced by writers as different as Norman Mailer and Virginia Woolf, Primo Levi and Ernest Hemingway, Jean-Paul Sartre and W. H. Auden. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of the international literatures of the war: both those works that recorded or reflected experiences of the war as it happened, and those that tried to make sense of it afterwards. It surveys the writing produced in the major combatant nations (Britain and the Commonwealth, the USA, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, and the USSR), and explores its common themes. With its chronology and guide to further reading, it will be an invaluable source of information and inspiration for students and scholars of modern literature and war studies.

Author : R. Sodi,M. Marcus
Publisher : Springer
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230119673

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New Reflections on Primo Levi by R. Sodi,M. Marcus Pdf

This book presents a baker's dozen of interpretative keys to Levi's output and thought. It deepens our understanding of common themes in Levi studies (memory and witness) while exploring unusual and revealing byways (Levi and Calvino, or Levi and theater, for example).

Author : J. Druker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230622180

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Primo Levi and Humanism after Auschwitz by J. Druker Pdf

This innovative study reassesses Primo Levi's Holocaust memoirs in light of the posthumanist theories of Adorno, Levinas, Lyotard, and Foucault and finds causal links between certain Enlightenment ideas and the Nazi genocide.

Author : Charlotte Ross
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781136868856

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Primo Levi's Narratives of Embodiment by Charlotte Ross Pdf

This innovative reading of Primo Levi’s work offers the first sustained analysis in English of his representations of bodies and embodiment. Discussion spans the range of Levi’s works — from testimony to journalism, from essays to science fiction stories — identifying and tracing multiple narratives of embodiment and disembodiment across his oeuvre. These narratives range from the abject, disembodied condition of prisoners in Auschwitz, to posthuman or cyborg individuals, whose bodies merge with technological devices. Levi’s representations of bodies are explored in relation to theories of embodiment and posthumanism, bringing his work into new dialogue with critical discourses on these issues. Taking inspiration from Levi’s definition of the human being as a constructor of containers, as well as from the recurring references to both material and metaphorical containing structures in his work, the book suggests that for Levi, embodiment involves constant negotiations of containment. He depicts the complex relationships between physical and social bodies, the material and the immaterial self, the conscious and unconscious subject, the organic and the technologically-enhanced body, engaging with evolving understandings of the boundaries of the body, the self, and the human.

Author : Arthur Chapman,Minna Vuohelainen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137435576

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Interpreting Primo Levi by Arthur Chapman,Minna Vuohelainen Pdf

The legacy of antifascist partisan, Auschwitz survivor, and author Primo Levi continues to drive exciting interdisciplinary scholarship. The contributions to this intellectually rich, tightly organized volume - from many of the world's foremost Levi scholars - show a remarkable breadth across fields as varied as ethics, memory, and media studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 5216696261

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Cambridge Companion to The Italian Novel by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nancy Harrowitz
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487512293

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Primo Levi and the Identity of a Survivor by Nancy Harrowitz Pdf

Primo Levi (1919–1987) was an Italian chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor who used a combination of testimony, essays, and creative writing to explore crucial themes related to the Shoah. His voice is among the most important to emerge from this dark chapter in human history. In Primo Levi and the Identity of a Survivor, Nancy Harrowitz examines the complex role that Levi’s Jewish identity played in his choices of how to portray his survival, as well as in his exposition of topics such as bystander complicity. Her analysis uncovers a survivor’s shame that deeply influenced the personas he created to recount his experiences. Exploring a range of Levi’s works, including Survival at Auschwitz and lesser-known works of fiction and poetry, she illustrates key issues within his development as a writer. At the heart of Levi’s discourse, Harrowitz argues, lies a complex interplay of narrative modes that reveals his brilliance as a theorist of testimony.