false 48 386 359 true 5727894 read 0 true 338122 currently-reading 27 true 338121 to-read 38 false 9103581 dissertation http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80166779 to: Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory (Paperback) by Lawrence L. Langer
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Langer's cataloging and analysis of the testimonies he witnessed are mostly useful and insightful, particularly when he establishes how the Holocaust experience challenges our ideas of heroism, logic, history, etc. However, he seems to privilege oral testimonies over written ones in a way that is a bit simplistic. While he is correct to point out the differences between the spoken and the written, he fails to recognize the tropes inherent in oral testimony that make the appearance of immediacy in that genre an illusion more than anything else. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79748656 to: The Edge of Modernism: American Poetry and the Traumatic Past (Hardcover) by Walter Kalaidjian
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I picked up this book planning to read only the introduction and the chapter on Sexton, but the former convinced me to read it all. The fourth chapter, which links the ultra-conservative/fascist politics of the New Critics to their literary criticism/theory was particularly insightful. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79400307 A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge (Hardcover) by Josh Neufeld
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78939084 Invisible (Hardcover) by Paul Auster
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78937041 Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? (Hardcover) by Judith Butler
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