Phyllis Lassner
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1113402 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Phyllis Lassner |
| NOMBRES | Phyllis |
| APELLIDO | Lassner |
| FIRMA | LASSNER P |
| AFILIACIONES | Northwestern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6390-8313 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
New Approaches to Visual Representations of the Holocaust and Its Memory
The Dark Path Back”
Women writers challenge the popular and critical entrenchment of male-authored literary detective fiction. A close reading of Sara Paretsky’s 2001 novel Total Recall demonstrates that the ongoing quest for social justice by her woman detective, V. I. Warshawski, is addressed through assertive women’s voices that have also transformed critical approaches to women’s crime fiction. In Paretsky’s novels, V.I. finds herself in a double bind reserved f…
Performing Exile as an Undercover Agent
Lilli Palmer’s personal and political status as a Jewish émigré informs her success as a stage and screen actress and later, as a novelist and painter. Like other Jewish émigrés to Britain and the United States, Palmer illustrates the creative opportunities many experienced in voluntary exile or as refugees escaping Nazi persecution. This essay focuses on Palmer’s espionage roles that plunge her into political and narrative jeopardy. Whether her …
Antisemitism in Film Comedy in Nazi Germany by Valerie Weinstein
Reviewed by: Antisemitism in Film Comedy in Nazi Germany by Valerie Weinstein Phyllis Lassner (bio) Antisemitism in Film Comedy in Nazi Germany. By Valerie Weinstein. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. xi, 281 pp., ISBN 978-0-253-04071-8 (pb), US $36.00. Comic representations of Hitler and his minions first became a staple of Hollywood and British films when his rise to power consolidated, and then loomed, as a global threat. Iconic exa…
Double Jeopardy
Intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews during the Third Reich occupied a dangerously ambiguous position. Although the 1935 Nuremberg Laws declared intermarriage illegal, the Jewish wife or husband was at first exempted from anti-Semitic persecution. After Kristallnacht on 9 November 1938, their situation deteriorated dramatically. However, Nazi family law was applied inconsistently, leaving both spouses in states of uncertainty with regard to th…
Rachel Lichtenstein’s Narrative Mosaics
Rachel Lichtenstein’s books, along with her multimedia art, represent her explorations of her British Jewish identity and her place in British Jewish culture as an imaginative odyssey. Her work represents research, stories, and traces from London’s Jewish past and multicultural present as well as from Poland and Israel, her family’s accounts, and the testimony of recent immigrants and long-time residents. Lichtenstein is a place writer whose arti…
On Aarons's Holocaust Graphic Narratives
On Aarons's Holocaust Graphic Narratives Phyllis Lassner Holocaust Graphic Narratives: Generation, Trauma, and Memory. By Victoria Aarons. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020. 256 pp., ISBN 978-1978802551 (pb), $24.95. Victoria Aarons is a distinguished scholar of Jewish American and Holocaust literature. Her studies of third-generation writers have set the foundation for extending how we view Holocaust writing as generationally dem…
The quest for Holocaust memory in Polish films, 2012–2016
Fantasies of Jews returning to Poland after the Holocaust have become a staple of post-Communist Polish cultural expression. Recent Polish films, Aftermath (2012), Ida (2013), and Demon (2015) represent Polish Holocaust memory through Expressionist cinematic techniques, including spectral figures and non-realistic lighting and camera angles. This essay examines how Jewish ghosts excavate suppressed Holocaust knowledge and the resurgence of anti-S…
Espionage and Exile
Espionage and Exile demonstrates that from the 1930s through the Cold War, British Writers Eric Ambler, Helen MacInnes, Ann Bridge, Pamela Frankau, John le Carré and filmmaker Leslie Howard combined propaganda and popular entertainment to call for resistance to political oppression. Instead of constituting context, the political engagement of these spy fictions bring the historical crises of Fascist and Communist domination to the forefront of tw…
Whatever happened to British-Jewish studies
The provocative question addressed by the title of this collection of essays foretells its answer, as sixteen essays, two introductions and three discussions of archival resources attest. Sections
Magical Transports and Transformations
Holocaust fiction and film for young audiences constitute a representational and pedagogical dilemma. Such narrative conventions as fantasy and fairy tale elements offer accessibility for young audiences to learn about the brutal and incomprehensible extremes of the Holocaust. However, they may also undermine the catastrophe's grim historicity. Examining Jane Yolen's Holocaust novel The Devil's Arithmetic and its film adaptation alongside her nov…
Olivia Manning
Like all too many mid-century British women writers, Olivia Manning has been unduly neglected. In the immediate postwar era, when her fiction began appearing through her final, posthumously publish
Testing the Limits of the Middlebrow
This essay explores how analyzing popular Holocaust films as a representation of Middlebrow cultural production changes conventional assessments of each. Unlike those writers who have suffered the opprobrium of too much accessibility, of being relegated to Middlebrow marginalization from canonical cultural status, Holocaust writers struggle to find the language and forms through which to bear witness to their experiences, in short, to achieve acc…
Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust
In its analysis of Anglo-Jewish women writing the Holocaust, this book highlights the necessity of their inclusion in the evolving canon of modern British literature, by showing how these writers comp
Feminine fascism
A Bridge Too Close
A Bridge Too Close: Narrative Wars to End Fascism and Imperialism Phyllis Lassner While by definition modern literature is always expanding and complicating its boundaries, this inclusiveness has been challenged by the intersection of modernism with postmodernism and by the impact of postcolonial studies.1 Although studies of modernism and postmodern literature have been historicized over the last several years, with intense attention to the impa…
Brave new causes
British Women Writers of World War II
In British Women Writers of World War II , Phyllis Lassner offers a challenging analysis of politicized literature in which such British women writers as Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Stevie Smith
Elizabeth Bowen
Resisting romance
Elizabeth Bowen
This critical biography is part of a series that helps in the reassessment of women's writing in the light of what we understand today. All the books in the series are written by women. This particula
Elizabeth Bowen
This critical biography is part of a series that helps in the reassessment of women's writing in the light of what we understand today. All the books in the series are written by women. This particula
The quest for Holocaust memory in Polish films, 2012–2016
Fantasies of Jews returning to Poland after the Holocaust have become a staple of post-Communist Polish cultural expression. Recent Polish films, Aftermath (2012), Ida (2013), and Demon (2015) represent Polish Holocaust memory through Expressionist cinematic techniques, including spectral figures and non-realistic lighting and camera angles. This essay examines how Jewish ghosts excavate suppressed Holocaust knowledge and the resurgence of anti-S…
Magical Transports and Transformations
Holocaust fiction and film for young audiences constitute a representational and pedagogical dilemma. Such narrative conventions as fantasy and fairy tale elements offer accessibility for young audiences to learn about the brutal and incomprehensible extremes of the Holocaust. However, they may also undermine the catastrophe's grim historicity. Examining Jane Yolen's Holocaust novel The Devil's Arithmetic and its film adaptation alongside her nov…
Elizabeth Bowen
This critical biography is part of a series that helps in the reassessment of women's writing in the light of what we understand today. All the books in the series are written by women. This particula
Elizabeth Bowen
Resisting romance
British Women Writers of World War II
In British Women Writers of World War II , Phyllis Lassner offers a challenging analysis of politicized literature in which such British women writers as Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Stevie Smith
Brave new causes
A Bridge Too Close
A Bridge Too Close: Narrative Wars to End Fascism and Imperialism Phyllis Lassner While by definition modern literature is always expanding and complicating its boundaries, this inclusiveness has been challenged by the intersection of modernism with postmodernism and by the impact of postcolonial studies.1 Although studies of modernism and postmodern literature have been historicized over the last several years, with intense attention to the impa…
Feminine fascism
Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust
In its analysis of Anglo-Jewish women writing the Holocaust, this book highlights the necessity of their inclusion in the evolving canon of modern British literature, by showing how these writers comp
Testing the Limits of the Middlebrow
This essay explores how analyzing popular Holocaust films as a representation of Middlebrow cultural production changes conventional assessments of each. Unlike those writers who have suffered the opprobrium of too much accessibility, of being relegated to Middlebrow marginalization from canonical cultural status, Holocaust writers struggle to find the language and forms through which to bear witness to their experiences, in short, to achieve acc…
Olivia Manning
Like all too many mid-century British women writers, Olivia Manning has been unduly neglected. In the immediate postwar era, when her fiction began appearing through her final, posthumously publish
Whatever happened to British-Jewish studies
The provocative question addressed by the title of this collection of essays foretells its answer, as sixteen essays, two introductions and three discussions of archival resources attest. Sections
Magical Transports and Transformations
Holocaust fiction and film for young audiences constitute a representational and pedagogical dilemma. Such narrative conventions as fantasy and fairy tale elements offer accessibility for young audiences to learn about the brutal and incomprehensible extremes of the Holocaust. However, they may also undermine the catastrophe's grim historicity. Examining Jane Yolen's Holocaust novel The Devil's Arithmetic and its film adaptation alongside her nov…
Espionage and Exile
Espionage and Exile demonstrates that from the 1930s through the Cold War, British Writers Eric Ambler, Helen MacInnes, Ann Bridge, Pamela Frankau, John le Carré and filmmaker Leslie Howard combined propaganda and popular entertainment to call for resistance to political oppression. Instead of constituting context, the political engagement of these spy fictions bring the historical crises of Fascist and Communist domination to the forefront of tw…
The quest for Holocaust memory in Polish films, 2012–2016
Fantasies of Jews returning to Poland after the Holocaust have become a staple of post-Communist Polish cultural expression. Recent Polish films, Aftermath (2012), Ida (2013), and Demon (2015) represent Polish Holocaust memory through Expressionist cinematic techniques, including spectral figures and non-realistic lighting and camera angles. This essay examines how Jewish ghosts excavate suppressed Holocaust knowledge and the resurgence of anti-S…
Double Jeopardy
Intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews during the Third Reich occupied a dangerously ambiguous position. Although the 1935 Nuremberg Laws declared intermarriage illegal, the Jewish wife or husband was at first exempted from anti-Semitic persecution. After Kristallnacht on 9 November 1938, their situation deteriorated dramatically. However, Nazi family law was applied inconsistently, leaving both spouses in states of uncertainty with regard to th…
Rachel Lichtenstein’s Narrative Mosaics
Rachel Lichtenstein’s books, along with her multimedia art, represent her explorations of her British Jewish identity and her place in British Jewish culture as an imaginative odyssey. Her work represents research, stories, and traces from London’s Jewish past and multicultural present as well as from Poland and Israel, her family’s accounts, and the testimony of recent immigrants and long-time residents. Lichtenstein is a place writer whose arti…
On Aarons's Holocaust Graphic Narratives
On Aarons's Holocaust Graphic Narratives Phyllis Lassner Holocaust Graphic Narratives: Generation, Trauma, and Memory. By Victoria Aarons. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2020. 256 pp., ISBN 978-1978802551 (pb), $24.95. Victoria Aarons is a distinguished scholar of Jewish American and Holocaust literature. Her studies of third-generation writers have set the foundation for extending how we view Holocaust writing as generationally dem…
Performing Exile as an Undercover Agent
Lilli Palmer’s personal and political status as a Jewish émigré informs her success as a stage and screen actress and later, as a novelist and painter. Like other Jewish émigrés to Britain and the United States, Palmer illustrates the creative opportunities many experienced in voluntary exile or as refugees escaping Nazi persecution. This essay focuses on Palmer’s espionage roles that plunge her into political and narrative jeopardy. Whether her …
Antisemitism in Film Comedy in Nazi Germany by Valerie Weinstein
Reviewed by: Antisemitism in Film Comedy in Nazi Germany by Valerie Weinstein Phyllis Lassner (bio) Antisemitism in Film Comedy in Nazi Germany. By Valerie Weinstein. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. xi, 281 pp., ISBN 978-0-253-04071-8 (pb), US $36.00. Comic representations of Hitler and his minions first became a staple of Hollywood and British films when his rise to power consolidated, and then loomed, as a global threat. Iconic exa…
The Dark Path Back”
Women writers challenge the popular and critical entrenchment of male-authored literary detective fiction. A close reading of Sara Paretsky’s 2001 novel Total Recall demonstrates that the ongoing quest for social justice by her woman detective, V. I. Warshawski, is addressed through assertive women’s voices that have also transformed critical approaches to women’s crime fiction. In Paretsky’s novels, V.I. finds herself in a double bind reserved f…
New Approaches to Visual Representations of the Holocaust and Its Memory
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