Imre Kertesz And Holocaust Literature (Comparative Cultural Studies) [Paperback]

Louise O. Vasvari (Editor), Steven Totosy de Zepetnek (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 30, 2005 | Series: Comparative Cultural Studies

The volume fills a gap in scholarship about Imre Kertesz, whose work to date is largely unknown in the English-speaking world. The papers' authors are scholars from the US, Canada, the UK, Hungary, Germany, and New Zealand. In addition to the papers, the volume contains a bibliography of Kertesz's works including translations, and a bibliography of studies in several languages about his work.

Product Details

• Paperback: 335 pages
• Publisher: Purdue University Press (July 30, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557533962
• ISBN-13: 978-1557533968
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,426,307 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek's http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/totosycv areas of scholarship include (comparative) cultural studies, comparative media and communication studies, comparative literature, postcolonial studies, ethnic minority studies, film and literature, audience studies, European, US-American, and Canadian cultures and literatures, history, bibliography, new media and knowledge management, editing & print and new media publishing, conflict management, mediation, and diversity training. His university degrees are a B.A. in history and German studies (U of Western Ontario 1980); an M.A. in comparative literature (Carleton U 1983), a B.Ed. history and English as a second language (U of Ottawa 1984), and a Ph.D. in comparative literature (U of Alberta 1989). Tötösy was professor of comparative literature at the University of Alberta 1984-2000 where he served also as associate director of the Research Institute for Comparative Literature, as associate editor of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée, and as series editor of the U of Alberta Research Institute for Comparative Literature monograph series of comparative literature, at the U of Halle-Wittenberg 2002-2011, and he has held (distinguished) visiting professorships in the PR of China, Hungary, Spain, Belgium, Taiwan, and the USA. His single-authored books include Comparative Cultural Studies (forthcoming), Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application, The Social Dimensions of Fiction, and his recent edited volumes include Comparative Hungarian Cultural Studies, Comparative Central European Holocaust Studies, The New Central and East European Culture, Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing, and Imre Kertész and Holocaust Literature. He is series editor of the Purdue UP monograph series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies and the Shaker Publisher monograph series of Books in Comparative Culture, Media, and Communication Studies and editor of the Purdue UP humanities and social sciences peer-reviewed quarterly CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (ISSN 1481-4374) http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb .