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Sophie's Choice.

by III, Rhoda Sirlin and James L. W. West; West, James L. W.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookDescription: 1 online resource (185 pages).ISBN: 9781443807746; .Subject(s): Electronic booksOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Styron's Choices -- Part I Sexual Politics -- Evil and William Styron -- Night Thoughts of a Media Watcher -- William Styron: A Conversation -- William Styron: An Interview -- William Styron's Sophie's Choice: The Structure of Oppression -- The Politics of Gender: William Styron's Sophie's Choice -- Women in Nazi Germany: Paradoxes -- Sexual Politics and Confessional Testimony in Sophie's Choice -- Part II Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust -- A Liberal's Auschwitz -- The South Encounters the Holocaust: William Styron's Sophie's Choice -- Bellow, Malamud, Roth … and Styron? -- God's Averted Face: Styron's Sophie's Choice -- William Styron's Sophie's Choice: Poland, the South, and the Tragedy of Suicide -- Does the Holocaust Lie beyond the Reach of Art? -- Auschwitz and the Literary Imagination: William Styron's Sophie's Choice -- Beyond Words and Silence: Classical Music in William Styron's Sophie's Choice -- Afterword: The Enduring Metaphors of Auschwitz and Hiroshima -- Sources.
Summary: Sophie�a�™s Choice: A Contemporary Casebook is a collection of interpretations and reactions to William Styron�a�™s famous 1979 novel of the Holocaust. Sophie�a�™s Choice won the American Book Award and sold more than three million copies worldwide, but the novel has remained controversial�A­for its perceived treatment of women, its mixing of sexual comedy with high tragedy, and its legitimacy as an examination of the Holocaust. The items in the casebook are divided into three sections: Sexual Politics, Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, and Silence. Contributors include Pearl K. Bell, Gloria Steinem, Carolyn A. Durham, Barbara T. Lupack, Richard L. Rubenstein, Cynthia Ozick, Bertram Wyatt-Brown, and Elie Wiesel. The collection is framed by a foreword and an afterword, both by Styron. This casebook will be useful to teachers, students, and scholars; it brings together important commentaries on Sophie�a�™s Choice, focuses discussion on key themes and issues, and argues for the central place of the novel in late twentieth-century literature.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Styron's Choices -- Part I Sexual Politics -- Evil and William Styron -- Night Thoughts of a Media Watcher -- William Styron: A Conversation -- William Styron: An Interview -- William Styron's Sophie's Choice: The Structure of Oppression -- The Politics of Gender: William Styron's Sophie's Choice -- Women in Nazi Germany: Paradoxes -- Sexual Politics and Confessional Testimony in Sophie's Choice -- Part II Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust -- A Liberal's Auschwitz -- The South Encounters the Holocaust: William Styron's Sophie's Choice -- Bellow, Malamud, Roth … and Styron? -- God's Averted Face: Styron's Sophie's Choice -- William Styron's Sophie's Choice: Poland, the South, and the Tragedy of Suicide -- Does the Holocaust Lie beyond the Reach of Art? -- Auschwitz and the Literary Imagination: William Styron's Sophie's Choice -- Beyond Words and Silence: Classical Music in William Styron's Sophie's Choice -- Afterword: The Enduring Metaphors of Auschwitz and Hiroshima -- Sources.

Sophie�a�™s Choice: A Contemporary Casebook is a collection of interpretations and reactions to William Styron�a�™s famous 1979 novel of the Holocaust. Sophie�a�™s Choice won the American Book Award and sold more than three million copies worldwide, but the novel has remained controversial�A­for its perceived treatment of women, its mixing of sexual comedy with high tragedy, and its legitimacy as an examination of the Holocaust. The items in the casebook are divided into three sections: Sexual Politics, Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, and Silence. Contributors include Pearl K. Bell, Gloria Steinem, Carolyn A. Durham, Barbara T. Lupack, Richard L. Rubenstein, Cynthia Ozick, Bertram Wyatt-Brown, and Elie Wiesel. The collection is framed by a foreword and an afterword, both by Styron. This casebook will be useful to teachers, students, and scholars; it brings together important commentaries on Sophie�a�™s Choice, focuses discussion on key themes and issues, and argues for the central place of the novel in late twentieth-century literature.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2019. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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