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Jewish-American Writing Since 1945.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 1999Copyright date: ©1999Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (222 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781474473385
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Jewish-American Writing Since 1945DDC classification:
  • 810.98924
LOC classification:
  • PS153.J4 .W334 1999
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Persistent Themes and Questions -- 1 The Historicla and Literary Foundations: Pre-1945 -- 2 Seminal Influences: Abraham Cahan, Anzia Yezierka and Henry Roth -- 3 Jewish-American Themes in Fiction I: Bellow, Malamud, Roth and Identity Crisis -- 4 Jewish-American Themes in Fiction II: Erica Jong, Grace Paley and Tillie Olson -- 5 Explorations in Drama: from Arthur Miller to Tony Kushner -- 6 Poetry across the Generations: Duality to Assimilation -- 7 The Mediation of Jewishness in Cultural Texts: Cynthia Ozick, Leslie Fiedler, Paul Auster and Woody Allen -- 8 Relocating Moralism in Jewish America: Past and Present in Chaim Potok and the later Saul Bellow -- 9 New Directions across the Generations: From Philip Roth to Cynthia Ozick -- Conclusion: A Renaissance or Revisionism? -- Glossary of Yiddish Terms -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Persistent Themes and Questions -- 1 The Historicla and Literary Foundations: Pre-1945 -- 2 Seminal Influences: Abraham Cahan, Anzia Yezierka and Henry Roth -- 3 Jewish-American Themes in Fiction I: Bellow, Malamud, Roth and Identity Crisis -- 4 Jewish-American Themes in Fiction II: Erica Jong, Grace Paley and Tillie Olson -- 5 Explorations in Drama: from Arthur Miller to Tony Kushner -- 6 Poetry across the Generations: Duality to Assimilation -- 7 The Mediation of Jewishness in Cultural Texts: Cynthia Ozick, Leslie Fiedler, Paul Auster and Woody Allen -- 8 Relocating Moralism in Jewish America: Past and Present in Chaim Potok and the later Saul Bellow -- 9 New Directions across the Generations: From Philip Roth to Cynthia Ozick -- Conclusion: A Renaissance or Revisionism? -- Glossary of Yiddish Terms -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

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