A House of Words
Jewish Writing, Identity and Memory
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Erschienen am 14. Mai 2014
208 Seiten
978-0-7735-6684-2 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
Focusing on the way Jewish history - particularly the Holocaust - and tradition inform postwar Canadian and American Jewish literature, A House of Words offers innovative readings of the works of such influential writers as Saul Bellow, Leonard Cohen, Eli
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Englisch
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Montreal, QC
USA
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Digitale Ausgabe
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9,33 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7735-6684-2 (9780773566842)
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Inhalt
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Illustrations
- Introduction: This World and Others
- PART ONE: WHAT SORT OF HOME IS THE PAST?
- Forethought: Building a House of Words
- 1 Eli Mandel's Family Architecture: Building a House of Words on the Prairies
- 2 Writing around the Holocaust: Uncovering the Ethical Centre of Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers
- 3 Taking the Victims' Side: Mordecai Richler's Response to the Holocaust in St. Urbain's Horseman
- PART TWO: STRANGE PRESENCES
- Forethought: Facing Up to the Past
- 4 Strange Presences on the Family Tree: The Unacknowledged Literary Father in Philip Roth's The Prague Orgy
- 5 Philip Roth's Literary Ghost: Rereading Anne Frank
- 6 Ghost Writing: Chava Rosenfarb's The Tree of Life
- PART THREE: CONFRONTING APOCALYPSE
- Forethought: On Refusing to End
- 7 Apocalypse Stalled: The Role of Traditional Archetype and Symbol in Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust
- 8 An End to Endings: Saul Bellow's Anti-Apocalyptic Novel
- PART FOUR: THE COLLABORATOR
- Forethought
- 9 Warring with Shadows: The Holocaust and the Academy
- Conclusion: In Search of a Multicultural Tradition
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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