ISBN: 9783640423521 - thane rosenbaum: elijah visible - a mirror of jewish life torn between history and tradition and contemporary american society (3 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1, Martin Luther University, language: English, abstract: Introduction'He writes like he talks and talks like he writes'Although the cruelties people of Europe had to suffer from during the early decades ofthe 20th century, when Adolf Hitler began to establish his Nazi-regime, are part of a sad anddark chapter in German history, the aftermaths of the Rassengesetze, the war itself and theconcentration camps are still shaking the minds of those who are faced with this issue duringtheir studies, as well as the memories and lives of the people which either had to liveaccording to the ideologies of the Third Reich and experience the tortures and pain the Nazishad brought upon them, or belong to the younger generation of those people's descendants.Thane Rosenbaum himself is one of them, a member of the generation whose parentshad been there, had to live during the Third Reich and had survived the Holocaust. His novelElijah Visible treats the issue of Nazi-Germany, the concentration camps and theconsequences of this brutal era of German politics and ideologies from a rather indirectJewish point of view (for further explanation cf. 2.1).During the tenor of this work the author, Thane Rosenbaum, shall be introduced andhis novel-in-stories Elijah Visible will be analyzed with the help of three selected shortstories; the structure of the complete novel and connections between single stories will beillustrated. It is expounded in how far and in which manner the author's past and familybackground have influenced the (events described throughout the) stories and thus, whichautobiographical elements can be found. The last chapter will lay the focus on Rosenbaum'slanguage and style as well as the purpose of writing his novel.This work is written in American English.[.].…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Thane Rosenbaum: Elijah Visible - a mirror of Jewish life torn between history and tradition and contemporary American society | Franziska Lottes | Taschenbuch | 44 S. | Englisch | 2009 | GRIN Verlag | EAN 9783640423521 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: GRIN Publishing GmbH, Waltherstr. 23, 80337 München, info[at]grin[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.…