A House of Words: Jewish Writing, Identity, and Memory: Volume 27 - Rilegato

Ravvin, Norman

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0773516646 ISBN 13: 9780773516649

Casa editrice: McGill Queens Univ, 1997

Riassunto

Arguing that Jewish North American writing is too commonly discussed as part of the mainstream, neglecting the Jewish aspects of the works, Ravvin places the writing of Bellow, Richler, Cohen, West, Mandel, Roth, and Rosenfarb within the Jewish context that the works demand. Ravvin depicts a Jewish cultural landscape within which postwar writers contend with community and identity, continuity and loss, and highlights the way this particular landscape is entangled with broader literary and cultural traditions. He considers Bellow and West alongside apocalyptic narratives, discusses Cohen in relation to the counterculture, examines Mandel's postmodern view of history, and looks at autobiography and ethics in Roth and Rosenfarb. At once scholarly and poetic, A House of Words will appeal to the general reader of Canadian, American, and Jewish literature and history, as well as to specialists in these fields.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Norman Ravvin is an assistant professor of English at the University of New Brunswick.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: McGill Queens Univ
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0773516646
• ISBN 13: 9780773516649
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 191
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile