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Genre
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A category of literary forms such as; novel, lyric poem and short stories.
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Fable
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A usually short story or poem often depicted using animals that presents a moral or practical lesson.
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Parable
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A short story told to convey a moral or message.
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Midrash
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Hebrew; a rabbinic interpretation, or exposition, of biblical text. The term can also be applied to a collection of such expositions or, capitalized, to the whole midrashic literature written during the first millennium AD
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Commixture
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The act or process of mixing; in this case different genres into on "commix" book.
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metafiction
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Metafiction is a kind of fiction which self-consciously addresses the devices of fiction. "Writing about writing"
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Deep Memory
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inarticulable memories, memories for which there is no means of expression
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Post Memory
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distinguished by a generational difference. Our "memories" of the holocaust are not memories but memories of what we've been taught of the event.
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Received History
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A narrative hybrid that interweaves both events of the holocaust and the ways they are passed down to us.
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Common Memory
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The memory establishes clarity, coherence and closure
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Hyper mediated experiences of memory
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hyper:above and beyond, excess
mediated: intervening third party |
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Vicarious Memory
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experienced at secondhand, memory that is not directly the rememberer's own but is being remembered on another behalf
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Expiation
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The atoning or making up for an offense committed against God or one's neighbor
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Atonement
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compensation for a wrong
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Didactic
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offered with the intention of instruction or teaching; uplifting message to learn
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