LEADER 03062 am 22005533u 450 001 996201655903316 005 20221206103747.0 035 $a(CKB)3450000000002993 035 $a(MARCnow)har110179631 035 $a(MH)012821477-5 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000507577 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12176698 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000507577 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10546059 035 $a(PQKB)11322675 035 $a(OCoLC)808385337 035 $a(EXLCZ)993450000000002993 100 $a20110820h20112011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn#nnn||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aOff-canon pleasures $ea case study and a perspective /$fArmin Paul Frank 210 1$aGöttingen, Germany:$cUniversitätsverlag Göttingen,$d2011. 210 4$d©2011 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 122 pages) 225 0 $aOpen Access e-Books 225 0 $aKnowledge Unlatched 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $a1. Introduction -- 2. Leo Rosten and the matter of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N -- 3. Archibald MacLeish and the theme of Imminent war -- 4. Perspective. 330 $aThe inclusion of works in a canonical list creates a large body of exclusions. But among these neglected works there are not a few that nevertheless are worth reading. Literary worth is not necessarily aesthetic impeccability. A literary work recommends itself by a high degree of artistic achievement with elbowroom for historical importance. The present study focuses on Leo Rosten's immigration novel The Education of Hyman Kaplan (1937) and Archibald MacLeish's radio play Air Raid (1938). The first is more than the apparent compendium of language-based jokes. Read in the context of immigration policy from Presidents Theodore Roosevelt to F.D. Roosevelt and of Jewish-American humor, it displays Kaplan's moral and intellectual growth, which extant commentary denies, and exhibits the "interior internationality" of an immigration country. Air Raid is one of the few achieved American radio plays to take a stand on foreign affairs in a context that does not only consist of broadcasting and Picasso's collage-painting Guernica "the screaming picture" which MacLeish transposed into the acoustic medium but also of the historical saturation bombing of the Basque town. 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCanon (Literature)$xHistory and criticism 608 $bElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCanon (Literature)$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a810.90052 700 $aFrank$b Armin Paul$0694506 801 0$bNyNyMAR 801 1$bNyNyMAR 801 2$bAuAdUSA 801 2$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996201655903316 996 $aOff-canon pleasures$91985825 997 $aUNISA