New Essays on Seize the Day
Published on 28. December 1998
Book
Hardback
140 pages
978-0-521-55129-8 (ISBN)
Description
This 1999 book provides a multifaceted introduction to Nobel Prize-winner Saul Bellow's most widely read, respected, and taught work of fiction, Seize the Day. This tragi-comic story of one day in the life of an average man on the brink of failure and despair is a prime example of the Jewish novels of the 1950s. The essays in this volume examine the thematic, stylistic, and critical elements of Bellow's masterpiece and offer different approaches to how the novel may or may not be thought of as 'ethnic'.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
317 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-55129-8 (9780521551298)
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Michael P. Kramer
New Essays on Seize the Day
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12/1998
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Content
1. The vanishing Jew: on teaching Bellow's Seize the Day as ethnic fiction Michael Kramer; 2. 'Who's he when he's at home?': Saul Bellow's translations Hana Wirth-Nesher; 3. Manner and morals, civility and barbarism Donald Weber; 4. Imaging masochism and the politics of pain Sam Girgus; 5. Yizkor for six million Emily Miller Budick; 6. Death and the Post-Modern hero/Schlemiel Jules Chametzky.