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Leona Toker
In each chapter Toker carefully reconstructs a novel for us-those are not mere plot summaries, but mature products of several re-readings-and proceeds to make her way through the novel’s numerous…
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Reflects on the writings and testimonies that shed light on the veiled aspects of totalitarianism, dehumanisation, and atrocity. Identifying key themes that recur in the narratives - arrest, the stages…
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Devoted to the ways in which Holocaust literature and Gulag literature provide contexts for each other, Leona Toker shows how the prominent features of one shed light on the veiled…
Using novels by Fielding, Austen, Dickens, Conrad, Forster, and Faulkner, Toker demonstrates how the withholding of information affects readers’ attitudes, stimulates their reassessment, and leads to a self-critical reorientation –…
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Leona Toker (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Scholars and critics have long recognized the need for ethical criticism to address not only the idea-content but also the morphological aspects of narrative, yet the search continues for ways…
