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Critical Insights: The Book Thief

Table of Contents

About This Volume, Robert C. Evans




The Book Thief, Death, and Me, Michelle Ann Abate




Biography of Markus Zusak, Robert C. Evans




Critical Contexts




Hitler, Hope, and the Autobahn: “But the Lord sent us our Führer and he fed us,” Lindsay Huysentruyt




Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief: A Survey of Academic Criticism, Joyce Ahn




Teaching Literary Criticism Using Reviews of Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief: An Experiment in Critical Pluralism, Robert C. Evans




Language and Morality in Novels by Twain, Salinger, and Zusak, Caitlin Mattera




Critical Readings




Zusak’s The Book Thief in the Context of Holocaust Literature, Eric Sterling




“Righteous Gentiles” and Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, Robert C. Evans




“Kriegskinder,” Bombing, and Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, Robert C. Evans




Germans and the Holocaust: “We Didn’t Know,” Lindsay Huysentruyt




A Survey of Interviews with Marcus Zusak about His Novel The Book Thief, Kelly Snyder




Visualizations of Death and Their Relevance to Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, Jordan Bailey




A Close Encounter with Death: Narration in Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, Erin M. Gipson




The Revealing Voice of Death: Liesel’s Encounter with Trauma, Jerusha Yoder




Death, Friendship, and the Power of Words: Liesel Meminger’s Traumatic Story in Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief, Jerusha Yoder




The Jewish Fist-Fighter: The Trauma and Representation of Max Vandenburg, Caitlin Mattera




Reviews of the Filmed Version of Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief: A Survey, Mikia Holloway




Resources




Chronology of Markus Zusak’s Life




Works by Markus Zusak




Bibliography




About the Editor




Contributors