Recent representations of the Holocaust have increasingly required us to think beyond rigid demarcations of nation and history, medium and genre. Holocaust Intersections sets out to investigate the
Both W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) and the Austrian author Christoph Ransmayr (1954-) were born too late to know directly the violence of the Second World War and the Holocaust, but these traumatic events
Scholars of Italian and medieval literature take Dante's discourse of desire as a platform from which to look at medieval concepts of desire in all their multiplicity, fragmentation, and interrelation
Thanks to Adolph Hitler and acculturation, the rich corpus of Yiddish literature is unavailable to most readers. Although some of his work has been translated, David Bergelson is largely unknown. Sher
Based on a 1997 colloquium in tandem with an exhibition on Jews in China in Sankt Augustin, Germany, these 31 papers bring two venerable civilizations into "the same semantic universe" and reflect the
Contents: The Pre-Conquest Sculptural Tradition in Durham (Rosemary Cramp); Early Medieval Durham: the Archaeological Evidence (M.O.H. Carver); The Spiral Piers of Durham Cathedral (Eric Fernie); The
The papers in this volume, which were presented in 2011, at the first conference the British Archaeological Association held in Poland, explore the medieval art, architecture and archaeology of the ci
Poetry born of historical upheaval bears witness both to actual historical events and considerations of poetics. Under the duress of history the poet, who is torn between lamentation and celebration,
The Latin American short story has often been viewed in terms of its relation to orality, tradition and myth. But this desire to celebrate the difference of Latin American culture unwittingly contribu
The world of Yiddish, its literature and culture, cannot be entered without knowledge of the shtetl — the heart of Eastern European Jewry. The papers in this volume, most of them presented at the seco
