Jewish American Literature Since 1945: An IntroductionTaylor & Francis, 1999 - 215 páginas Jewish American writing is an exciting and controversial genre within post-war literature. Jewish AmericanLiterature since 1945 offers a student guide to the major writers, their key works, and their cultural and philosophical backgrounds. The theoretical underpinnings of the literature--including the postmodern, the masternarrative and metafiction--are also introduced in an accessible form. The themes, issues and philosophies of key writers such as Saul Bellow, Erica Jong, Arthur Miller, Cynthia Ozick, Philip Roth, and Isaac Bashevis Singer are inter-related, and wider literary and historical topics are explained. |
Índice
Persistent Themes and Questions | 1 |
Pre1945 | 19 |
Abraham Cahan Anzia Yezierska | 31 |
Bellow | 52 |
Erica Jong | 73 |
From Arthur Miller | 92 |
Duality | 111 |
Past | 149 |
From | 167 |
A Renaissance or Revisionism? | 184 |
Glossary of Yiddish Terms | 197 |
| 211 | |
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Términos y frases comunes
Abraham Cahan achievement American Literature American Pastoral American-Jewish anti-Semitism Anzia Yezierska Arthur Miller artistic assimilation central centre Chaim Potok chapter characters comedy commentary concerned consciousness context creative criticism culture Cynthia Ozick David Levinsky David Mamet define Diaspora discussion drama dream duality element Erica Jong essay established European explains expression fiction Fiedler focus gentile Grace Paley Henry Roth Holocaust human Ibid idea ideology immigrant important insists instance intellectual interest Isaac Bashevis Singer issues Jewish experience Jewish identity Jewish writer Jewish-American Jewish-American writing Jews Judaism Klepfisz literary London Malamud Mamet mediated memory metaphor modern moral narrative nature notion novel Odets Olsen Orthodox past Penguin perhaps perspective Philip Roth plays poem poetic poetry poets question Rabbi relates religious Rich Roth's SAJL Saul Bellow secular sense Shoah Shtetl social story texts textualised theatre theme tion tradition urban Virago voices women writers Woody Allen Yezierska Yiddish York Zuckerman
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