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Teaching Holocaust Literature and Film

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  • © 2008

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Editors:
  1. Robert Eaglestone

    1. Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

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  2. Barry Langford

    1. Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

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Part of the book series: Teaching the New English (TENEEN)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Robert Eaglestone, Barry Langford
    Pages 1-14

  3. Issues Arising from Teaching Holocaust Film and Literature

    • Sue Vice, Gwyneth Bodger
    Pages 15-27

  4. Holocaust Theory?

    • Robert Eaglestone
    Pages 28-36

  5. The Role of Theories of Memory in Teaching Representations of the Holocaust

    • Anne Whitehead
    Pages 37-47

  6. Teaching Holocaust Literature: Issues of Representation

    • Nicola King
    Pages 48-62

  7. Mass Culture/Mass Media/Mass Death: Teaching Film, Television, and the Holocaust

    • Barry Langford
    Pages 63-77

  8. “Representing the Holocaust”: an Interdisciplinary Module

    • Antony Rowland
    Pages 78-90

  9. Teaching the Holocaust in French Studies: Questions of Mediation and Experience

    • Ursula Tidd
    Pages 91-101

  10. History, Memory, Fiction in French Cinema

    • Libby Saxton
    Pages 102-113

  11. Teaching Primo Levi

    • Rachel Falconer
    Pages 114-125

  12. Teaching Holocaust Literature and Film to History Students: Teaching The Pawnbroker (1961/1965)

    • Tim Cole
    Pages 126-138

  13. Sophie’s Choice: On the Pedagogical Value of the “Problem Text”

    • R. Clifton Spargo
    Pages 139-155

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 156-170
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About this book

The representation of the Holocaust in literature and film has confronted lecturers and students with some challenging questions. Does this unique and disturbing subject demand alternative pedagogic strategies? What is the role of ethics in the classroom encounter with the Holocaust? Scholars address these and other questions in this collection.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

    Robert Eaglestone, Barry Langford

About the editors

GWYNETH BODGER Affiliated Lecturer at the Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations, Cambridge, UK TIM COLE Senior Lecturer in Social History at the University of Bristol, UK RACHEL FALCONER Reader in English Literature in the School of English at the University of Sheffield, UK NICOLA KING Senior Lecturer in English at the University of the West of England, UK ANTONY ROWLAND Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Salford, UK LIBBY SAXTON Lecturer in French and Film Studies in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film at Queen Mary, University of London, UK R. CLIFTON SPARGO Fiction writer and critic, and Associate Professor of English at Marquette University, USA URSULA TIDD Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Manchester, UK SUE VICE Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield, UK ANNE WHITEHEAD Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Theory in the School of English at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.

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