Friedlander, Saul. “History, Memory, and the Historian: Dilemmas and Responsibilities.” New German Critique 80 (2000): 3-15. JSTOR. Web. 17 Nov. 2009. In Saul Friedlander’s “History, Memory and the Historian: Dilemmas and Responsibilities,” Friedlander discusses two dominant approaches to history. The first relies on empirical data, rituals, and a ““rational” understanding of others,” while the other [...]
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Notes on “History, Memory and the Historian”
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Notes on “Writing Posthistorically”
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So, in reading Orvell’s article “Writing Posthistorically: Krazy Kat, Maus, and the Contemporary Fiction Cartoon,” Orvell makes articulates my point on Spiegelman’s violence in a way I wish I would have: “where the typical cartoon desensitizes us to violence, Spiegelman sensitizes us, despite the fact that he traps his characters within visual stereotypes that threaten [...]
A Rough Draft of Notes
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The artifice of human morality: book I, pg 6, 54-55, pg 98-100 The artifice of movement: starts book I, pg 12 continues through novel The artifice of privacy: book I, pg 23 The artifice of Religion: book I, pg 54 The artifice of narrative time: book I, pg 67, pg 74, pg 77, pg 80, [...]
Artifice in Schindler’s List
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Manchel, Frank “Mishegoss: Schindler’s List, Holocaust Representation, and Film History.” Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 18.3 (1998): 431-436. MLA International Bibliography. EBSCO. Web. 15 Nov. 2009. Bernstein, Michael André “The Schindler’s List Effect.” The American Scholar 63.3 (1994): 429-432. MLA International Bibliography. EBSCO. Web. 15 Nov. 2009. I chose the following [...]
Sources
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Writing Posthistorically: Krazy Kat, Maus, and the Contemporary Fiction Cartoon Miles Orvell American Literary History, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring, 1992), pp. 110-128 Published by: Oxford University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/489940 New Literary History, Vol. 21, No. 4, Papers from the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change (Autumn, 1990), pp. 939-955 Published by: The [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on November 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I attach the following article for a few reasons. I was struck by the authors use of the term “subversion” when describing Maus because I realized that I had not considered I had only considered the violent portrayals of Jewish resistance a form of subversion. So now I want to look at all of these [...]
Freedom?
Posted in Uncategorized on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When one wants to analyze the liberty of a particular society, political systems, in the mind of the observer, become a representation of the society’s freedom. I must admit I am often plagued by a similar arrogance. Being an agnostic in a secular society leads you to believe, often falsely, that shackles are a symbol [...]
