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Thomas Keneally | | Variant Name: |
Thomas Michael Keneally | | Birth Date: |
October 7, 1935 | | Place of Birth: |
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | | Nationality: |
Australian | | Gender: |
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 Biography of Thomas (Michael) Keneally
4989 words, approx. 16.6 pages
 Late in his fourth decade as a published author, Thomas Keneally has turned his well-honed techniques as a novelist to works of popular history. The first of them was The Great Shame (1998), his account of the Irish diaspora of the mid nineteenth century... summary from source:
Biography of Thomas (Michael) KeneallyThomas Keneally
3311 words, approx. 11 pages
An Australian Catholic with no immediate ties to the Holocaust, Thomas Keneally had written sixteen novels before Schindler's List (first published as Schindler's Ark, 1982) and has continued to produce a steady literary output since then. In addition to... summary from source:
 Biography of Thomas Keneally
2314 words, approx. 7.7 pages
Thomas Keneally (born 1935) is an Australian novelist and nonfiction writer who gained worldwide attention when his best-known work, the Holocaust novel Schindler's List, was adapted into an Academy Award-winning motion picture in 1993. Keneally was born...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Schindler's Ark Information
810 words, approx. 3 pages
 <i>Schindler's Ark</i> is a Booker Prize winning novel (1982) by Thomas Keneally, which was later adapted into the highly successful movie <i>Schindler's List</i> directed by Steven Spielberg. The United States version of the book was called Schindler's...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by D. J. Enright
580 words, approx. 2 pages
It is easy, Thomas Keneally remarks prefatorily, to chronicle the victory that evil generally scores over good, but "it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue". And Schindler's Ark is "'the story of the pragmatic triumph of good over evil, a triumph in eminently measurable, statistical, unsubtle terms". As if to palliate this artistic offence, Keneally hastens to assure us that "virtue" is not quite the right word for Schindler. True, he was ... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Paul Zweig
545 words, approx. 2 pages
History would not normally be concerned with such a man as Oskar Schindler, a mere minor player in the sybaritic night life of a small Polish city during an unspeakable war. But history is not an exact science, and Oskar Schindler is remembered, as few men have ever been, in the testimony of 1,300 Jewish workers who escaped Poland's cities of death because Schindler, against every probability, became a possessed man, ready to risk everything in a daring, almost flaunted mission of rescue. The versati... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Marion Glastonbury
531 words, approx. 2 pages
To conceive of the unendurable present as part of a story with a significant plot and uncertain outcome presupposed an outside world of shared meanings and moral continuity. It assumed human recognition; a day of reckoning. Because the Holocaust provides an objective correlative of Hell, outstripping the craziest nightmares and the cruellest dreams, the imagination is constantly challenged, and soon exhausted, by the effort of grasping it. As we know from government archives, Whitehall officials refused to ...
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 Essay Grade: 88%Schindler's List
1,116 words, approx. 4 pages
Explores themes in the Stephen Spielberg film Schindler's List. Examines how Spielberg establishes character development through the use of film techniques such as extreme close-ups of the list, colour and lighting. Describes the theme of the value and worth of one individual. summary from source:
Essay Grade: 86%Schindler's List
893 words, approx. 3 pages
Discusses the film Schindler's List, directed by Steven Spielberg. Describes how Spielberg uses a narrative technique that splits the film roughly into three sections: the pre-Krakow (i.e. before the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto), the scenes during the liquidation of the Krakow ghetto and the post Krakow incidents. Analyzes major themes in the film. summary from source:
Essay Grade: 88%Schindler's List
485 words, approx. 2 pages
Examines the evolution of Oskar Schindler throughout the film. Also discusses Schindler's motives at the beginning of the film?
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