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 | ||
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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 | ||
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Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies : Unfinalized Moments : Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative [[electronic resource]]
| Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies : Unfinalized Moments : Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Royal Derek Parker |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ashland, OH, USA, : Purdue University Press, 20120101 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
| Disciplina | 813/.54098924 |
| Collana | Shofar supplements in Jewish studies Unfinalized moments |
| Soggetto topico |
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Jewish Studies American fiction - History and criticism - Jewish authors - United States Jews - Intellectual life Jews in literature English Languages & Literatures American Literature |
| ISBN |
1-280-12853-4
9786613532411 1-61249-162-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461778503321 |
Royal Derek Parker
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| Ashland, OH, USA, : Purdue University Press, 20120101 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies : Unfinalized Moments : Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative [[electronic resource]]
| Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies : Unfinalized Moments : Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Royal Derek Parker |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ashland, OH, USA, : Purdue University Press, 20120101 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
| Disciplina | 813/.54098924 |
| Collana | Shofar supplements in Jewish studies Unfinalized moments |
| Soggetto topico |
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Jewish Studies American fiction - History and criticism - Jewish authors - United States Jews - Intellectual life Jews in literature English Languages & Literatures American Literature |
| ISBN |
1-280-12853-4
9786613532411 1-61249-162-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790289903321 |
Royal Derek Parker
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| Ashland, OH, USA, : Purdue University Press, 20120101 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Unfinalized moments : essays in the development of contemporary Jewish American narrative / / edited by Derek Parker Royal
| Unfinalized moments : essays in the development of contemporary Jewish American narrative / / edited by Derek Parker Royal |
| Autore | Royal Derek Parker <1963-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | West Lafayette, Ind., : Purdue University Press, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
| Disciplina | 813/.54098924 |
| Collana | Shofar supplements in Jewish studies |
| Soggetto topico |
American fiction - Jewish authors - History and criticism
Jews - United States - Intellectual life Jews in literature |
| ISBN |
1-280-12853-4
9786613532411 1-61249-162-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Unfinalized Moments: Essays in the Development of Contemporary Jewish American Narrative -- Part 1: Dialogues with Orthodoxy and History -- 1. "Hardly There Even When She Wasn't Lost": Orthodox Daughters and the "Mind-Body Problem" in Contemporary Jewish American Fiction -- 2. Southern Discomfort: Revisiting the Jewish Question in Tova Mirvis's The Ladies Auxiliary -- 3. The Ethics of After: Melvin Jules Bukiet, Holocaust Fiction, and the Reemergence of an Ethical Sense in the Post-Holocaust World -- 4. The Second-Generation Holocaust Nonsurvivor: Third-Degree Metalepsis and Creative Block in Art Spiegelman's Graphic Novel Maus -- 5. "Unfinished Business": Journeys to Eastern Europe in Thane Rosenbaum's Second Hand Smoke and Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated -- Part 2: Folklore, Fantasy, and the Metanarrative -- 6. The Escapist: Fantasy, Folklore, and the Pleasures of the Comic Book in Recent Jewish American Holocaust Fiction -- 7. A Tale Told about Idiots: The Chelm Story and Holocaust Representation -- 8. Laughter and Trembling: The Short Fiction of Steve Stern and Nathan Englander -- 9. Metafictional Witnessing in Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated -- Part 3: (Re)inscribing Jewish Text and Identity -- 10. Putting the "Jewish" Back in "Jewish American Fiction": A Look at Jewish American Fiction since 1977 and an Allegorical Reading of Nathan Englander's "The Gilgul of Park Avenue" -- 11. "Were it Not for the Yetzer Hara": Eating, Knowledge, and the Physical in Jonathan Rosen's Eve's Apple -- 12. The Sweetheart Is Outside Herself: Writing the Contemporary Jewish American Writer in S. L. Wisenberg's Ceci Rubin Stories.
13. Jewish American Fiction on the Border: Culture Confrontations, Double Consciousness, and Hybridity in the Work of Pearl Abraham -- Part 4: Authors in Their Own Words -- 14. Margins within the Margins: An Interview with Ruth Knafo Setton and Farideh Dayanim Goldin -- 15. Picturing American Stories: An Interview with Ben Katchor -- Questions for Discussion -- Contemporary Jewish American Fiction: A Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910963054103321 |
Royal Derek Parker <1963->
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| West Lafayette, Ind., : Purdue University Press, c2011 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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