Identification and testimony as a genre

• Authors: Eaglestone R.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The author attempts at presenting the taxonomy of 'testimony of the Holocaust' genre of historic writing. Purposeful distortion of identification is a characteristic discerning testimony from any other literary texts. Identification is impossible for epistemological reasons as well as because of no shared experience present between the story-telling survivor and his/her readers. However, a testimony is not reduced to a historic text; instead, it does preserve a uniqueness and specificity as a genre.

Keywords

EN

'TESTIMONY OF THE HOLOCAUST'; HISTORIC WRITING

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Teksty Drugie (Second Texts)
• Year: 2007
• Issue: 5(107)
• Pages: 11-33
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Eaglestone R.

• R. Eaglestone, Royal Holloway, University of London

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA03597297