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dc.contributor.advisorMulman, Lisaen_US
dc.contributor.authorPieroni, Adam
dc.creatorPieroni, Adamen_US
dc.date2021-11-24T14:05:37.000en_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-29T11:28:04Z
dc.date.available2021-11-29T11:28:04Z
dc.date.issued2017-12-01en_US
dc.date.submitted2018-05-29T09:18:40-07:00en_US
dc.identifiergraduate_theses/29en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13013/556en_US
dc.description.abstractOf the many enigmatic features of W.G. Sebald's fiction, perhaps the most perplexing is the author's uncanny ability to convey a topic while avoiding explicit reference to it. This is especially true in regard to the Holocaust, a topic Sebald rarely labels with terms traditionally associated with its history, but which arguably constitutes the ethical core of the works. Partially in response to historian Saul Frieländer's suggestion that literature may potentially offer cohesion to "the growing fragmentation of the history of the Nazi period" ("Trauma" 52), this thesis investigates the relationship between Sebald's unique stylistics and its representation of the Holocaust. Through close readings of Sebald's work, I demonstrate that Sebald's and Friendländer's texts are undergirded by similar ethical and epistemological positions, which in turn help explain their significant rhetorical differences. Indeed, the stark contrasts of those differences speaks to the continuing potency of the events to impose a disjunctive effect (despite ethical affinities of the authors) on Holocaust representation.en_US
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dc.titleThe Tactics Of Confrontation: Documentary Epistemology In The Fiction Of W.G. Sebalden_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.legacy.embargo2018-05-29T00:00:00-07:00en_US
dc.legacy.pubstatuspublisheden_US
dc.description.departmentEnglishen_US
dc.date.displayDecember 2017en_US
dc.type.degreeMaster of Arts (MA)en_US
dc.type.degreeMaster of Arts in Teaching (MAT)en_US
dc.legacy.pubtitleGraduate Thesesen_US
dc.legacy.identifierhttps://digitalcommons.salemstate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1030&context=graduate_theses&unstamped=1en_US
dc.legacy.identifieritemhttps://digitalcommons.salemstate.edu/graduate_theses/29en_US
dc.subject.keywordFriedländeren_US
dc.subject.keywordhistoriographyen_US
dc.subject.keywordHolocausten_US
dc.subject.keywordliteratureen_US


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