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UNINA9910963005203321 |
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Autore |
Miller David Neal |
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Titolo |
Fear of fiction : narrative strategies in the works of Isaac Bashevis Singer / / David Neal Miller |
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Albany, : State University of New York Press, c1985 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 173 pages) |
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Collana |
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SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Narration (Rhetoric) - History - 20th century |
Jews in literature |
Fiction - Technique |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-167) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Front Matter""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Content""; ""Fiction as Reportage, I: Examples from the Early Works""; ""Reportage as Fiction, I: Singer's Pseudonymous Personas""; ""Fiction as Reportage, II: Recurrent Narrative Situations in the Later Works""; ""Reportage as Fiction, II: The Interview as Fictional Genre""; ""Coda""; ""Back Matter""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index"" |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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David Neal Miller's Fear of Fiction is the first book-length study that begins with the understanding that Singer is truly a Yiddish writer in language and culture. With the exception of a handful of articles, American critical examination of Isaac Bashevis Singer's work has been devoted to Singer's work in English--to those pieces he himself has selected for translation. This American Nobel laureate is part of a long tradition of Yiddish literature, and he still writes in that language. Working exclusively with Singer's Yiddish texts--many of the pieces discussed here are not available in English--Miller examines Singer's narrative strategies, his blurring of the distinctions between fiction and reportage. Fear of Fiction captures an intriguing paradox of Singer's writing: Singer fictionalizes the factual and historicizes the imaginative. Miller demonstrates that Singer is no "inspired innocent," but that this blending of genres is the work of a craftsman who uses genre to mediate between the world and the imagination. The book is enriched |
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