Studies in Contemporary Jewry: Xii: Literary Strategies: Jewish - Texts and Context

Klappentext Literary Strategies: Jewish Texts and Contexts collects essays on Jewish literature which deal with "the manifold ways that literary texts reveal their authors' attitudes toward their own Jewish identity and toward diverse aspects of the 'Jewish question.'" Essays in this volume explore the tension between Israeli and Diaspora identities, and between those who write in Hebrew or Yiddish and those who write in other "non-Jewish" languages. The essays also explore the question of how Jewish writers remember history in their "search for a useable past." From essays on Jabotinsky's virtually unknown plays to Philip Roth's novels, this book provides a strong overview of contemporary themes in Jewish literary studies. Zusammenfassung This volume of this important series deals with Jewish identity in literature. Particular attention is paid to changing national and popular myths, folk memory, and the historical consciousness of Jews in modern times.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Ezra Mendelsohn, Ezra (Institute of Contemporary Jewry Mendelsohn
• Con la collaborazione di: Ezra Mendelsohn (Editore), Mendelsohn Ezra (Editore)
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 10.04.1997
• EAN: 9780195112030
• ISBN: 978-0-19-511203-0
• Pagine: 400
• Serie: Studies in Contemporary Jewry,; Studies in Contemporary Jewry
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Ebraismo; HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Jewish, LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, General & world history, Jewish Studies, Literary studies: general, General and world history, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities