Approaches to Teaching the Works of Primo Levi

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Primo Levi
Title Approaches to Teaching the Works of Primo Levi PDF eBook
Author Nicholas Patruno
Publisher Modern Language Association
Pages 178
Release 2014-11-01
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1603291792

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Primo Levi, Holocaust survivor and renowned memoirist, is one of the most widely read writers of post-World War II Italy. His works are characterized by the lean, dispassionate eloquence with which he approaches his experience of incarceration in Auschwitz. His memoirs--as well as his poetry and fiction and his many interviews--are often taught in several fields, including Jewish studies and Holocaust studies, comparative literature, and Italian language and literature, and can enrich the study of history, psychology, and philosophy. The first part of this volume provides instructors with an overview of the available editions, anthologies, and translations of Levi's work and identifies other useful classroom aids, such as films, music, and online resources. In the second part, contributors describe different approaches to teaching Levi's work. Some, in presenting Survival in Auschwitz, The Reawakening, and The Drowned and the Saved, look at the place of style in Holocaust testimony and the reliability of memory in autobiography. Others focus on questions of translation, complicated by the untranslatable in the language and experiences of the concentration camps, or on how Levi incorporates his background as a chemist into his writing, most clearly in The Periodic Table.

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Gertrude Stein

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Gertrude Stein
Title Approaches to Teaching the Works of Gertrude Stein PDF eBook
Author Logan Esdale
Publisher Modern Language Association
Pages 178
Release 2018-08-01
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1603293450

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A trailblazing modernist, Gertrude Stein studied psychology at Radcliffe with William James and went on to train as a medical doctor before coming out as a lesbian and moving to Paris, where she collected contemporary art and wrote poetry, novels, and libretti. Known as a writer's writer, she has influenced every generation of American writers since her death in 1946 and remains avant-garde. Part 1 of this volume, "Materials," provides information and resources that will help teachers and students begin and pursue their study of Stein. The essays of part 2, "Approaches," introduce major topics to be covered in the classroom--race, gender, feminism, sexuality, narrative form, identity, and Stein's experimentation with genre--in a wide range of contexts, including literary analysis, art history, first-year composition, and cultural studies.

Approaches to Teaching Wiesel's Night

Approaches to Teaching Wiesel's Night
Title Approaches to Teaching Wiesel's Night PDF eBook
Author Alan Rosen
Publisher Approaches to Teaching World L
Pages 274
Release 2007
Genre History
ISBN

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Elie Wiesel is an internationally known author, human rights advocate, and lecturer. Night, his first book (1956 in Yiddish, 1958 in French, 1960 in English; a new English translation appeared in 2006), has become a classic memoir of a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust. The seventeen essays of this volume in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature examine the historical, cultural, and literary contexts of Wiesel's book as well as strategies for teaching it in the classroom. Part 1, "Materials," provides resources on the Jewish ghettos and concentration camps of World War II, on the Jewish faith and religious practices, on the genre of victims' diaries, on the critical reception of Night, on Wiesel's other work, and on available audiovisual materials. Part 2, "Approaches," addresses many subjects—among them, Wiesel's narrative techniques, the representation of Auschwitz, the use of different languages, the comparison of Wiesel with Primo Levi, the problems of memory and bearing witness, the Christian response to the Holocaust, and the challenge of teaching a grim and painful text to students.

Primo Levi and the Identity of a Survivor

Primo Levi and the Identity of a Survivor
Title Primo Levi and the Identity of a Survivor PDF eBook
Author Nancy Harrowitz
Publisher University of Toronto Press
Pages 190
Release 2016-01-01
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1487501021

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Primo Levi (1919-1987) was an Italian chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor who used a combination of testimony, essays, and creative writing to explore crucial themes related to the Shoah. His voice is among the most important to emerge from this dark chapter in human history. In Primo Levi and the Identity of a Survivor, Nancy Harrowitz examines the complex role that Levi's Jewish identity played in his choices of how to portray his survival, as well as in his exposition of topics such as bystander complicity. Her analysis uncovers a survivor's shame that deeply influenced the personas he created to recount his experiences. Exploring a range of Levi's works, including Survival at Auschwitz and lesser-known works of fiction and poetry, she illustrates key issues within his development as a writer. At the heart of Levi's discourse, Harrowitz argues, lies a complex interplay of narrative modes that reveals his brilliance as a theorist of testimony.

The Periodic Table

The Periodic Table
Title The Periodic Table PDF eBook
Author Primo Levi
Publisher Viking
Pages 0
Release 2012
Genre Authors, Italian
ISBN 9780241956816

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Inspired by the rhythms of the Periodic Table, Primo Levi assesses his life in terms of the chemical elements he associates with his past. From his birth into an Italian Jewish family through his training as a chemist, to the pain and darkness of the Holocaust and its aftermath, Levi reflects on the difficult course of his life in this heartfelt and deeply moving book.

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories

A Scrap of Time and Other Stories
Title A Scrap of Time and Other Stories PDF eBook
Author Ida Fink
Publisher Northwestern University Press
Pages 180
Release 1995
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780810112599

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Named a New York Times Notable Book Winner of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize Winner of the Anne Frank Prize These shattering stories describe the lives of ordinary people as they are compelled to do the unimaginable: a couple who must decide what to do with their five-year-old daughter as the Gestapo come to march them out of town; a wife whose safety depends on her acquiescence in her husband's love affair; a girl who must pay a grim price for an Aryan identity card.

Survival In Auschwitz

Survival In Auschwitz
Title Survival In Auschwitz PDF eBook
Author Primo Levi
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 196
Release 1996
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0684826801

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A work by the Italian-Jewish writer, Primo Levi. It describes his arrest as a member of the Italian anti-fascist resistance during the Second World War, and his incarceration in the Auschwitz concentration camp from February 1944 until the camp was liberated on 27 January 1945.