Throwing Down the Screen of Literature: Can Criticism Engage with Genocide?

TY - JOUR

T1 - Throwing Down the Screen of Literature: Can Criticism Engage with Genocide?

AU - Woolf, J.

PY - 2006

Y1 - 2006

N2 - This article argues that a literary equivalent to Roland Barthes’ punctum might play a part (albeit a brief and inevitably in some sense fictive part) in enabling us to throw down the screen of literature which helps to shield us from the immediacy of realities ‘so utterly outside our experience ’.

AB - This article argues that a literary equivalent to Roland Barthes’ punctum might play a part (albeit a brief and inevitably in some sense fictive part) in enabling us to throw down the screen of literature which helps to shield us from the immediacy of realities ‘so utterly outside our experience ’.

M3 - Article

SN - 1359-1371

VL - 12

SP - 1

EP - 22

JO - Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History

JF - Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History

IS - 3

ER -