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OverviewThis book examines how Jewish intellectuals during and after the Second World War reinterpreted Homer’s epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, in light of their own wartime experiences, drawing a parallel between the ancient Greek genocide of the Trojans and the Nazi genocide of the Jews. The wartime writings of Theodore Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Erich Auerbach, Rachel Bespaloff, Hermann Broch, Max Horkheimer, Primo Levi, and others were attempts both to understand the collapse of European civilization and the Enlightenment through critiques of their foundational texts and to imagine the place of the Homeric epics in a new post-War humanism. The book thus also explores the reception of these writers, analyzing how Jewish child-survivors like Geoffrey Hartman and Hélène Cixous and writers of the post-Holocaust generation like Daniel Mendelsohn continued to read the epics as narratives of grief, trauma, and woundedness into the twenty-first century.. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Adam J. GoldwynPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2022 Weight: 0.350kg ISBN: 9783031114724ISBN 10: 3031114728 Pages: 150 Publication Date: 01 November 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsChapter 1 Homer and the Jews on the Cusp of World War 2Chapter 2 Nihilism, Thoughtlessness, and the Bourgeois Odysseus: Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, and the Failure of Enlightenment HumanismChapter 3 Reflections on a Damaged Life: Hermann Broch’s Mythical Method and Rachel Bespaloff’s On the IliadChapter 4 Odysseus’ (Memory) Scar: Geoffrey Hartman’s Erich Auerbach’s OdysseusChapter 5 Hélène Cixous’ and Daniel Mendelsohn’s Postmemory Scars: The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Holocaust in the Twenty-First CenturyReviewsAuthor InformationAdam J. Goldwyn is Associate Professor of English at North Dakota State University, USA. He is the author of Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and Witness Literature in Byzantium: Narrating Slaves, Prisoners, and Refugees (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), and co-editor of Mediterranean Modernism: Intercultural Exchange and Aesthetic Development (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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