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...: Pocket Books). Wood, James 1998 “An Interview with W. G. Sebald,” in Brick 59 : 23 -29. Zilliacus, Clas 1979 “Radical Naturalism: First-Person Documentary Literature,” Comparative Literature 31 ( 2 ): 97 -112. Documents, Photography, Postmemory: Alexander Kluge, W. G. Sebald...

..., Technology, and Creativity in the Late Twentieth Century , edited by Philip Hayward, 197 -208 (London: John Libbey). Documenting the Fictions of Reality Nancy Pedri English, Memorial University of Newfoundland Abstract  An examination of the use of photography in Roland Barthes...

...Alexander Gribanov; Masha Kowell Among the many documents released one way or another during the early 1990s, there are two that open the window into the perception of samizdat by the top Soviet authorities. The first of them was signed by Yuri Andropov, then the head of the KGB, in the last days...

...Olga Zaslavskaya Historians turn to archives for historical evidence, the availability of which is not to be taken for granted. In many cases, archival practice excludes a significant part of documentation from archival solicitation.1 This can be applied to the history of the samizdat documents...

... by social forces, but New Historicism equally argues that a sense of autonomous self is often encoded within documents based on the discourse of power. Among such documents is the emblem, a conjunction of several texts and one image delivering a moral lesson. Using the theoretical framework of New...

...Robert N. Kraft Videotaped oral testimony of Holocaust survivors documents the extended (disjointed) memories of individuals who suffered through the industrial cruelty of the Third Reich. This testimony is studied cognitively in an effort to understand memory for atrocity and to characterize...

... documents belonging to various media. The three fundamental operations of transfictionality—expansion, modification, and transposition—are investigated in terms of their potential for transmedial storytelling. After an analysis of the variety of documents that make up the storyworld of Alpha 0.7...

... documents. Historians are slowly coming to agree that survivor accounts are a crucial source of evidence for appreciating the unorthodox and unprecedented moral universe of the Holocaust. Writers as diverse as Charlotte Delbo, Imre Kertész, Arnošt Lustig, and Aharon Appelfeld find ways of stripping...

..., the physical ability of ghetto residents to work became a central interest of the ghetto's Jewish authorities: a health department was established in all large and medium-sized ghettos. Documentation kept in the ghetto archives provided information about health services. Reports from clinics and hospitals...

...Joanne Weiner Rudof This article discusses postwar efforts to document the survivor experience, which continue to the present time. Many historians today acknowledge the importance of these primary source materials to their work as well as the necessity for careful analysis of them. These materials...

... narratives influence the relationship between word and image and the fictiveness of photographs within novels. Unlike earlier writers, who used photographs for illustration of place, postmodern novelists frequently use photographs as documentation, both in support of and in opposition to the written...

.... Over a thousand novels were documented, including both thrillers and mainstream works. A sample of twenty-five novels from the period was then selected for careful reading, analysis, and comparison. Preliminary results establish that though there is a great deal of diversity in terrorism novels, both...

... of the fate of his works was his 1972 letter to Literaturnaia gazeta protesting against the piecemeal publication of his work in foreign journals. Contemporaries tended to read that document as a recantation letter renouncing Kolyma Tales ; as a result, Shalamov's status was transformed into that of a fallen...

... Strauss’s three framing justifications for his manner of reading the Symposium as a document in the “ancient quarrel” of philosophy and poetry concerning which of the two should rightly shape the culture and ethical ideals of the Greeks (part 1). Then, following the course of Plato’s Symposium , the essay...

...David Anaki; Avishai Henik Most studies of synesthesia have documented its unidirectional nature. For example, in grapheme-color synesthesia, a digit (e.g., 5) triggers a color (e.g., yellow) but not vice versa. This has led many to believe synesthesia is unidirectional. However, research has...

...Margaret H. Freeman In this article the author explores the notion of possible bidirectionality in metaphor through an examination of Black's (1962, 1993) interaction theory, Fauconnier and Turner's (2002) blending theory, and several studies that document cases of interdomain influence...

... act of setting the text and letting it stand. Cryptography is a form of productive reading , a practice that involves taking the poem neither as an isolated object nor merely as a document for cultural study, but as the product of multiple forces, some of them deriving from the poet (his or her psyche...

... represent first-person works, but they do not tell us what kinds of first- person works they are. What’s missing is precisely the artifactual dimension. The most important first-person artifact, the one responsible for the remark- able rise (and fall) visible in figure 1, is what I call the document...

... of witness accounts recorded at a considerable temporal remove from the event. In addition to analyzing a communicative medium, in this case, video—which the Yale archive employed for oral documentation—the essays assembled here con- vey something of the complexity of a collective enterprise that marks...