Limit experiences : : a study of twentieth-century forms of representation / / Jacek Leociak ; translated by Alex Shannon.
In his work Limit Experiences, Jacek Leociak addresses questions that are fundamental to the twentieth-century experience: How can we represent such traumatic events as the Holocaust? Was Lyotard correct when he claimed that reality had succumbed to the gas chambers? How can we describe the «indescr...
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| Superior document: | Eastern European Culture, Politics and Societies ; 14 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin, Germany : : Peter Lang,, [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English Polish |
| Series: | Eastern European culture, politics and societies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (366 pages) :; digital file(s). |
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| Other title: | Limit Experiences |
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| Summary: | In his work Limit Experiences, Jacek Leociak addresses questions that are fundamental to the twentieth-century experience: How can we represent such traumatic events as the Holocaust? Was Lyotard correct when he claimed that reality had succumbed to the gas chambers? How can we describe the «indescribable»? Moving seamlessly through such topics as the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, the carpet bombing of Dresden, and Jews left for dead in the Nazi execution pits who miraculously «exited the grave» alive, Professor Leociak succeeds in offering readers a profound representation of twentieth-century limit experiences by embedding them in a broad array of sources and building around them a rich historical context. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 363170996X 3653068568 |
| Access: | Open Access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Jacek Leociak ; translated by Alex Shannon. |