LEADER 04614nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910782728103321 005 20230912134838.0 010 $a1-282-85474-7 010 $a9786612854743 010 $a0-7735-6684-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773566842 035 $a(CKB)1000000000713625 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000280372 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11224756 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000280372 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10269000 035 $a(PQKB)10861271 035 $a(CaPaEBR)400925 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3331104 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10141775 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL285474 035 $a(OCoLC)929121388 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/wmr3mx 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400925 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3331104 035 $a(DE-B1597)656437 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773566842 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3245461 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000713625 100 $a19970422d1997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA house of words$b[electronic resource] $eJewish writing, identity and memory /$fNorman Ravvin 210 $aMontreal ;$aBuffalo $cMcGill-Queen's University Press$dc1997 215 $ax, 191 p. $cill. ;$d24 cm 225 1 $aMcGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series two 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-7735-1665-4 311 $a0-7735-1664-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [177]-187) and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIllustrations -- $tIntroduction: This World and Others -- $tWhat Sort of Home Is the Past? -- $tForethought: Building a House of Words -- $tEli Mandel?s Family Architecture: Building a House of Words on the Prairies -- $tWriting around the Holocaust: Uncovering the Ethical Centre of Leonard Cohen?s Beautiful Losers -- $tTaking the Victims? Side: Mordecai Richler?s Response to the Holocaust in St. Urbain?s Horseman -- $tStrange Presences -- $tForethought: Facing Up to the Past -- $tStrange Presences on the Family Tree: The Unacknowledged Literary Father in Philip Roth?s The Prague Orgy -- $tPhilip Roth?s Literary Ghost: Rereading Anne Frank -- $tGhost Writing: Chava Rosenfarb?s The Tree of Life -- $tConfronting Apocalypse -- $tForethought: On Refusing to End -- $tApocalypse Stalled: The Role of Traditional Archetype and Symbol in Nathanael West?s Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust -- $tAn End to Endings: Saul Bellow?s Anti-Apocalyptic Novel -- $tThe Collaborator -- $tForethought -- $tWarring with Shadows: The Holocaust and the Academy -- $tConclusion: In Search of a Multicultural Tradition -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aArguing that Jewish North American writing is too commonly discussed as part of the mainstream, neglecting the Jewish aspects of the works, Ravvin places the writing of Bellow, Richler, Cohen, West, Mandel, Roth, and Rosenfarb within the Jewish context that the works demand. Ravvin depicts a Jewish cultural landscape within which postwar writers contend with community and identity, continuity and loss, and highlights the way this particular landscape is entangled with broader literary and cultural traditions. He considers Bellow and West alongside apocalyptic narratives, discusses Cohen in relation to the counterculture, examines Mandel's postmodern view of history, and looks at autobiography and ethics in Roth and Rosenfarb. At once scholarly and poetic, A House of Words will appeal to the general reader of Canadian, American, and Jewish literature and history, as well as to specialists in these fields. 410 0$aMcGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history.$nSeries two. 517 3 $aJewish writing, identity and memory 606 $aAmerican fiction$xJewish authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aJews in literature 606 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature 607 $aNorth America$xIntellectual life 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xJewish authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aJews in literature. 615 0$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. 676 $a813/.54098924 700 $aRavvin$b Norman$f1963-$01540073 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782728103321 996 $aA house of words$93791445 997 $aUNINA