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dc.contributor.advisor | O`Connor, Mary | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Shea, Patrick Thomas | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-06-18T16:53:00Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-06-18T16:53:00Z | - |
dc.date.created | 2011-08-19 | en_US |
dc.date.issued | 1995-09 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | opendissertations/5946 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 6974 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | 2176502 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/10937 | - |
dc.description.abstract | <p>The Judaeo-Christian mythic tradition postulates a universe with absolute limits in both time and space, as typified by the biblical books Genesis and Revelations. In the first chapter of my thesis I examine the way in which works of literature written from within this tradition necessarily have definite endings characterized by a return to a state of unity and an end to narratable incidents. Such endings may be interpreted as an affirmation of Apocalypse and of the eventual end of linear (and narrative) time.</p> <p>This theoretical framework cannot, however, account for the approaches to closure evidenced in literature of atrocity: the unprecedented nature of the event narrated necessitates a total re-evaluation or replacement of interpretive models. Thus we see structural innovations built around radically new interpretive strategies in the writings of post-Holocaust Jewish authors faced with the inapplicability of the Judaeo-Christian paradigm as a model for understanding. Of special relevance is Emil Fackenheim's concept of Tikkun Olam ("mending of the world") , which searches--and reconfigures--Jewish tradition in creating a uniquely Jewish response to the Holocaust. The practical implications of this paradigm shift, particularly as manifest in Henry Kreisel's The Betrayal, forms the focus of the second...</p> | en_US |
dc.subject | English Language and Literature | en_US |
dc.subject | English Language and Literature | en_US |
dc.title | A New Aesthetic of Closure: The Non-Linear Cosmologies of Henry Kreisel and Toni Morrison | en_US |
dc.type | thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | English | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Master of Arts (MA) | en_US |
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