Interpreting Primo Levi (eBook)

Minna Vuohelainen is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and MA Program Leader at Edge Hill University, England. She holds a BSc in International History from the London School of Economics, an MA in English from King's College London, and a PhD in English from Birkbeck, University of London. She is the author of Richard Marsh (2015) and of many articles in English Studies, the Journal of Literature and Science, and Victorian Periodicals Review, and has also produced scholarly editions of novels and short fiction. Her current research focuses on print culture, spatiality, the gothic, and the literature of conflict.Arthur Chapman is Senior Lecturer in History Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, England.

1.Introduction;Minna VuohelainenPART I: ETHICS, COMMUNICATION AND EDUCATION2.Hope, Shame And Resentment: Primo Levi And Jean Améry;Norman Geras3.The Ethics Of The Gray Zone; Catherine Mooney4. 'Labour Of Civilization And Peace': Primo Levi Looks At Interpreters And Interpreting;Mirna Cicioni5. Hatred In The Holocaust Classroom: Reading Primo Levi Affectively Toward Forgiveness;Christina FoisyPART II: HUMANITY, ANIMALITY AND SCIENCE6.Humanity, Animality And Philosophy In Primo Levi;Christopher Hamilton7. Witnessing Animal Suffering: Primo Levi On Animal Experimentation;Damiano Benvegnù8.The Story Of A Carbon Atom: Primo Levi's Material Science;Judith WoolfPART III: THE CAMPS: MEMORY AND SPACE9.Une Histoire Des Odeurs: The Olfactory World In Primo Levi's Narratives;Inés Valle Morán10.The Concentrationary Universe: Primo Levi's Spatial Consciousness;Minna Vuohelainen11. The Offense Of The Memory: Memory And Metaphor In The Drowned And The Saved;Brian WalterPART IV: LITERATURE AND INTERTEXT12. Paper Memories, Inked Genealogies: About Primo Levi's The Search For Roots;Maria Anna Mariani13. Angelic Butterfly And The Gorgon: On Lightness In Primo Levi's Writing;Franco Baldasso14. 'Il Resto [Non] È Silenzio': The Friendship Of Texts Between Hamlet And Se Questo;Catherine CharlwoodPART V: MEDIA, PUBLISHING AND ILLUSTRATION15. On Solid Air: Primo Levi And The Radio RAI;Giuseppe Episcopo16.'Best Regards From Home To Home': Primo Levi's Letters To A UK Friend And Publisher; Anthony Rudolf17. Illustrating Primo Levi: Jane Joseph And Anthony Rudolf In Conversation;Jane Joseph And Anthony Rudolf