New Essays on Call It Sleep

Klappentext A collection of critical essays on Henry Roth's Call it Sleep. Zusammenfassung Henry Roth's Call It Sleep! has been finally hailed as one of the finest Jewish-American modernist novels. The introduction and essays locate the novel in its cultural context and in terms of contemporary debates about ethnic literature! minority writing! modernism! and canonisation. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction Hana Wirth-Nesher; 2. The many myths of Henry Roth Leslie Fielder; 3. Shifting urbanscape: Roth's 'private' New York Mario Materassi; 4. The classic of disinheritance Ruth Wisse; 5. Henry Roth in Nighttown, or, containing Ulysses Brian McHale; 6. Roth's Call It Sleep: modernism on the lower East Side Karen Lawrence; 7. 'A world somewhere, somewhere else.' Language, nostalgic mournfulness, and urban immigrant family romance in Call It Sleep Werner Sollors.

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• Authors: Hana Wirth-Nesher, Hana (Tel-Aviv University) Wirth-Nesher
• Assisted by: Emory Elliot (Editor), Hana Wirth-Nesher (Editor), Hana (Tel-Aviv University) Wirth-Nesher (Editor), Wirth-Nesher Hana (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.06.1996
• EAN: 9780521456562
• ISBN: 978-0-521-45656-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: The American Novel; American Novel (Paperback); The American Novel
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, American English, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form