The Word in Exile
A Phenomenology of Silence in the Holocaust Novel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12726378 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Patterson (0000-0002-4042-1366, Oklahoma State University, corresponding author), David W Patterson (0000-0001-8187-0777) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 402-420 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Holocaust and Genocide Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1476-7937 • E-ISSN: 8756-6583 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hgs/7.3.402 |
| OpenAlex | W2043239697 |
| Language | EN |
This essay draws on some fifteen Holocaust novels to argue that the problem confronting the novelist is not the breakdown of a link between reality and imagination but the restoration of the relation between word and meaning. When that relation collapses, the word goes into exile, leaving a silence to which the novelist would impart an eloquence; only when silence may thus speak can meaning be returned to the word. In Its phenomenological approach, the essay examines silence as a subtext that reveals what transpires in the novel's creation and what is called for in the reader's response
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential · Phenomenology (philosophy · Psychoanalysis · Relation (database · Silence · Subtext · The Holocaust · Theology · Word (group theory · Computer Science · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |