A house of words [[electronic resource] ] : Jewish writing, identity and memory / / Norman Ravvin
| A house of words [[electronic resource] ] : Jewish writing, identity and memory / / Norman Ravvin |
| Autore | Ravvin Norman <1963-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Montreal ; ; Buffalo, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1997 |
| Descrizione fisica | x, 191 p. : ill. ; ; 24 cm |
| Disciplina | 813/.54098924 |
| Collana | McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series two |
| Soggetto topico |
American fiction - Jewish authors - History and criticism
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism Jews in literature Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-85474-7
9786612854743 0-7735-6684-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Altri titoli varianti | Jewish writing, identity and memory |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454227403321 |
Ravvin Norman <1963->
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| Montreal ; ; Buffalo, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1997 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A house of words [[electronic resource] ] : Jewish writing, identity and memory / / Norman Ravvin
| A house of words [[electronic resource] ] : Jewish writing, identity and memory / / Norman Ravvin |
| Autore | Ravvin Norman <1963-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Montreal ; ; Buffalo, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1997 |
| Descrizione fisica | x, 191 p. : ill. ; ; 24 cm |
| Disciplina | 813/.54098924 |
| Collana | McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series two |
| Soggetto topico |
American fiction - Jewish authors - History and criticism
American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism Jews in literature Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature |
| ISBN |
1-282-85474-7
9786612854743 0-7735-6684-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Illustrations -- Introduction: This World and Others -- What Sort of Home Is the Past? -- Forethought: Building a House of Words -- Eli Mandel’s Family Architecture: Building a House of Words on the Prairies -- Writing around the Holocaust: Uncovering the Ethical Centre of Leonard Cohen’s Beautiful Losers -- Taking the Victims’ Side: Mordecai Richler’s Response to the Holocaust in St. Urbain’s Horseman -- Strange Presences -- Forethought: Facing Up to the Past -- Strange Presences on the Family Tree: The Unacknowledged Literary Father in Philip Roth’s The Prague Orgy -- Philip Roth’s Literary Ghost: Rereading Anne Frank -- Ghost Writing: Chava Rosenfarb’s The Tree of Life -- Confronting Apocalypse -- Forethought: On Refusing to End -- Apocalypse Stalled: The Role of Traditional Archetype and Symbol in Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust -- An End to Endings: Saul Bellow’s Anti-Apocalyptic Novel -- The Collaborator -- Forethought -- Warring with Shadows: The Holocaust and the Academy -- Conclusion: In Search of a Multicultural Tradition -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Altri titoli varianti | Jewish writing, identity and memory |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782728103321 |
Ravvin Norman <1963->
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| Montreal ; ; Buffalo, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1997 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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