Cambridge Companion To Jewish American Literature

Author : Hana Wirth-Nesher,Michael P. Kramer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0521796997

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The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature by Hana Wirth-Nesher,Michael P. Kramer Pdf

For more than two hundred years, Jews have played important roles in the development of American literature. The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature addresses a wide array of themes and approaches to the distinct yet multifaceted body of Jewish American literature. Essays examine writing from the 1700s to major contemporary writers such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. Topics covered include literary history, immigration and acculturation, Yiddish and Hebrew literature, popular culture, women writers, literary theory and poetics, multilingualism, the Holocaust, and contemporary fiction. This collection of specially commissioned essays by leading figures discusses Jewish American literature in relation to ethnicity, religion, politics, race, gender, ideology, history, and ethics, and places it in the contexts of both Jewish and American writing. With its chronology and guides to further reading, this volume will prove valuable to scholars and students alike.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 5217969970

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Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hana Wirth-Nesher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108701337

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The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature by Hana Wirth-Nesher Pdf

This History offers an unparalleled examination of all aspects of Jewish American literature. Jewish writing has played a central role in the formation of the national literature of the United States, from the Hebraic sources of the Puritan imagination to narratives of immigration and acculturation. This body of writing has also enriched global Jewish literature in its engagement with Jewish history and Jewish multilingual culture. Written by a host of leading scholars, The Cambridge History of Jewish American Literature offers an array of approaches that contribute to current debates about ethnic writing, minority discourse, transnational literature, gender studies, and multilingualism. This History takes a fresh look at celebrated authors, introduces new voices, locates Jewish American literature on the map of American ethnicity as well as the spaces of exile and diaspora, and stretches the boundaries of American literature beyond the Americas and the West.

Author : John N. Duvall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521196314

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The Cambridge Companion to American Fiction After 1945 by John N. Duvall Pdf

A comprehensive 2011 guide to the genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors of American fiction since the Second World War.

Author : Hana Wirth-Nesher
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400829538

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Call It English by Hana Wirth-Nesher Pdf

Call It English identifies the distinctive voice of Jewish American literature by recovering the multilingual Jewish culture that Jews brought to the United States in their creative encounter with English. In transnational readings of works from the late-nineteenth century to the present by both immigrant and postimmigrant generations, Hana Wirth-Nesher traces the evolution of Yiddish and Hebrew in modern Jewish American prose writing through dialect and accent, cross-cultural translations, and bilingual wordplay. Call It English tells a story of preoccupation with pronunciation, diction, translation, the figurality of Hebrew letters, and the linguistic dimension of home and exile in a culture constituted of sacred, secular, familial, and ancestral languages. Through readings of works by Abraham Cahan, Mary Antin, Henry Roth, Delmore Schwartz, Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley, Philip Roth, Aryeh Lev Stollman, and other writers, it demonstrates how inventive literary strategies are sites of loss and gain, evasion and invention. The first part of the book examines immigrant writing that enacts the drama of acquiring and relinquishing language in an America marked by language debates, local color writing, and nativism. The second part addresses multilingual writing by native-born authors in response to Jewish America's postwar social transformation and to the Holocaust. A profound and eloquently written exploration of bilingual aesthetics and cross-cultural translation, Call It English resounds also with pertinence to other minority and ethnic literatures in the United States.

Author : Dana Evan Kaplan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139827003

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The Cambridge Companion to American Judaism by Dana Evan Kaplan Pdf

This volume provides readers with a comprehensive introduction to the most important and interesting historical and contemporary facets of Judaism in America. Written by twenty-four leading scholars from the fields of religious studies, American history and literature, philosophy, art history, sociology, and musicology, the book adopts an inclusive perspective on Jewish religious experience. Three initial chapters cover the development of Judaism in America from 1654, when Sephardic Jews first landed in New Amsterdam, until today. Subsequent chapters include cutting-edge scholarship and original ideas while remaining accessible at an introductory level. A secondary goal of this volume is to help its readers better understand the more abstract term of 'religion' in a Jewish context. The Cambridge Companion to American Judaism will be of interest not only to scholars but also to all readers interested in social and intellectual trends in the modern world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783346192110

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Jewish American Literature. A Critical Introduction by Anonim Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2019 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,3, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Fachbereich Translations-, Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft), course: Readings in 21st-Century American Literature, language: English, abstract: In this paper with the title “Jewish American Literature – a Critical Introduction” the focus will be on the origins and elements of Jewish American literature as well as on contemporary writings of the 20th and 21st century. The reasearch for this paper is based predominantly on writings of the American-Israeli professor, Hana Wirth-Nesher, who wrote and edited several books on Jewish American literature. She will be introduced in the beginning of this paper. After that the origins and characteristic elements of Jewish American literature will be described. Contemporary Jewish American literature will be discussed afterwards, followed by an introduction of Philip Roth and two of his novels – Goodbye, Columbus and Indignation. These were chosen in order to give concrete examples of literary works which were both – celebrated and criticized by their audience. The last chapter will consist of a personal reflection concerning Jewish American literature.

Author : Joshua S. Walden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107023451

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The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Music by Joshua S. Walden Pdf

A global history of Jewish music from the biblical era to the present day, with chapters by leading international scholars.

Author : Joshua Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108838276

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The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Fiction by Joshua Miller Pdf

This volume explores the most exciting trends in 21st century US fiction's genres, themes, and concepts.

Author : Steven Kepnes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108415439

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The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Theology by Steven Kepnes Pdf

A comprehensive review of the entire tradition of Jewish Theology from the Bible to the present from leading world scholars.

Author : Victoria Aarons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107108936

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The Cambridge Companion to Saul Bellow by Victoria Aarons Pdf

This book demonstrates the complexity of Bellow's work by emphasizing the ways in which it reflects the changing conditions of American identity.

Author : Colin McAllister
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781108422703

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The Cambridge Companion to Apocalyptic Literature by Colin McAllister Pdf

Apocalytic literature has addressed human concerns for over two millennia. This volume surveys the source texts, their reception, and relevance.

Author : Victoria Aarons,Holli Levitsky
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438473192

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New Directions in Jewish American and Holocaust Literatures by Victoria Aarons,Holli Levitsky Pdf

Surveys the current state of Jewish American and Holocaust literatures as well as approaches to teaching them. What does it mean to read, and to teach, Jewish American and Holocaust literatures in the early decades of the twenty-first century? New directions and new forms of expression have emerged, both in the invention of narratives and in the methodologies and discursive approaches taken toward these texts. The premise of this book is that despite moving farther away in time, the Holocaust continues to shape and inform contemporary Jewish American writing. Divided into analytical and pedagogical sections, the chapters present a range of possibilities for thinking about these literatures. Contributors address such genres as biography, the graphic novel, alternate history, midrash, poetry, and third-generation and hidden-child Holocaust narratives. Both canonical and contemporary authors are covered, including Michael Chabon, Nathan Englander, Anne Frank, Dara Horn, Joe Kupert, Philip Roth, and William Styron. “The range of critical approaches and authors examined makes this a valuable resource for scholars and teachers. Particularly in this troubling political moment, meditations on the new and continued relevance of Jewish American and Holocaust literatures for scholars, students, and the American public in general are invaluable.” — Sharon B. Oster, author of No Place in Time: The Hebraic Myth in Late Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Author : Victoria Aarons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108426282

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The New Jewish American Literary Studies by Victoria Aarons Pdf

Introduces readers to the new perspectives, approaches and interpretive possibilities in Jewish American literature that emerged in the twenty-first Century.

Author : Timothy Parrish
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827935

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The Cambridge Companion to Philip Roth by Timothy Parrish Pdf

From the moment that his debut book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), won him the National Book Award, Philip Roth has been among the most influential and controversial writers of our age. Now the author of more than twenty novels, numerous stories, two memoirs, and two books of literary criticism, Roth has used his writing to continually reinvent himself and in doing so to remake the American literary landscape. This Companion provides the most comprehensive introduction to his works and thought in a collection of newly commissioned essays from distinguished scholars. Beginning with the urgency of Roth's early fiction and extending to the vitality of his most recent novels, these essays trace Roth's artistic engagement with questions about ethnic identity, postmodernism, Israel, the Holocaust, sexuality, and the human psyche itself. With its chronology and guide to further reading, this Companion will be essential for new and returning Roth readers, students and scholars.