東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

Science Fiction as Ethical Response ...

Jampol, Noah Simon.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

Science Fiction as Ethical Response to the Holocaust: Philip Roth and Jewish American Fiction.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Science Fiction as Ethical Response to the Holocaust: Philip Roth and Jewish American Fiction./
Author:	Jampol, Noah Simon.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	188 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-10A(E).
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10271456
ISBN:	9781369824100

Science Fiction as Ethical Response to the Holocaust: Philip Roth and Jewish American Fiction.
Jampol, Noah Simon.

Science Fiction as Ethical Response to the Holocaust: Philip Roth and Jewish American Fiction. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 188 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Catholic University of America, 2017.

Scholars of Holocaust literary narratives have identified the ways in which the uses of language, memory, and narrative/ testimony have shifted in these texts from realistic modes of representation to more hybrid and metafictional considerations of this epochal event. Independently, critics working within science fiction (sf) have examined the ethical underpinnings of the genre's construction and indicated potential reasons for the proliferation of sf in the twentieth century vis-a-vis trauma theory and the particular historical and technological climate of the era.

ISBN: 9781369824100Subjects--Topical Terms:

523234
American literature.

Science Fiction as Ethical Response to the Holocaust: Philip Roth and Jewish American Fiction.
LDR:03275nmm a2200313 4500 001 2124292
005 20171023115427.5
008 180830s2017 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
020 $a 9781369824100
035 $a (MiAaPQ)AAI10271456
035 $a AAI10271456
040 $a MiAaPQ $c MiAaPQ
100 1 $a Jampol, Noah Simon. $3 3286281
245 1 0 $a Science Fiction as Ethical Response to the Holocaust: Philip Roth and Jewish American Fiction.
260 1 $a Ann Arbor : $b ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, $c 2017
300 $a 188 p.
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.
500 $a Adviser: Ernest Suarez.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Catholic University of America, 2017.
520 $a Scholars of Holocaust literary narratives have identified the ways in which the uses of language, memory, and narrative/ testimony have shifted in these texts from realistic modes of representation to more hybrid and metafictional considerations of this epochal event. Independently, critics working within science fiction (sf) have examined the ethical underpinnings of the genre's construction and indicated potential reasons for the proliferation of sf in the twentieth century vis-a-vis trauma theory and the particular historical and technological climate of the era.
520 $a In an effort to examine Holocaust history and memory -- particularly, the force of the Holocaust and its impact on Jewish populations born and raised in the United States -- Philip Roth increasingly turns to sf tropes and constructions as he explores the Holocaust more and more directly in three major works: The Ghost Writer (1979), Operation Shylock (1993), and, finally, his alternate history text The Plot Against America (2004). As the American-born protagonists in each of these texts confront the existential destruction of 20th century Jewishness and the widening gyre of history, Roth introduces and increasingly orients his texts around classic sf tropes to explore the breakdown of representational modalities and material cause which mark his generation's conception of the effects of the Holocaust, as well as the perception of borders within his generation's conception of Jewishness. Roth's use of cognitive novelty and alternate history reflect the New Jersey-born author's coming to terms with questions of "us vs. them" regarding American and European Jewry, particularly in light of arguments made by scholars such as Dominick LaCapra and Giorgio Agamben with respect to the limitations of traditional eyewitness testimony and narrative forms following the Holocaust. Roth and his (self-styled) protagonists grapple with the fundamental paradox of representing the unrepresentable -- responding to an event that has broken down the logics of comprehension and expression -- and how these pressures are to be represented or explored by American Jews whose understanding of their relationship to the Holocaust and their fellow Jew is one of diminished distances between the US and what happened "over there."
590 $a School code: 0043.
650 4 $a American literature. $3 523234
650 4 $a Holocaust studies. $3 3174188
650 4 $a Judaic studies. $3 2144743
690 $a 0591
690 $a 0507
690 $a 0751
710 2 $a The Catholic University of America. $b English Language and Literature. $3 1683385
773 0 $t Dissertation Abstracts International $g 78-10A(E).
790 $a 0043
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2017
793 $a English
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10271456