ISBN: 9780511056789

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… More...

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.; PDF; Reference & Languages > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory, Cambridge University Press<

ISBN: 9780511056789

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… More...

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.; PDF; Reference & Languages > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory, Cambridge University Press<

ISBN: 9780511056789

The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature discusses Jewish American literature in relation to ethnicity, religion, politics, and race.; PDF; Reference & Languages > Literature… More...

The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature discusses Jewish American literature in relation to ethnicity, religion, politics, and race.; PDF; Reference & Languages > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory, Cambridge University Press<

2004, ISBN: 9780511056789

eBooks, eBook Download (PDF), Auflage, [PU: Cambridge University Press], [ED: 1], Cambridge University Press, 2004

2003, ISBN: 9780511056789

eBooks, eBook Download (PDF), Auflage, [PU: Cambridge University Press], [ED: 1], Cambridge University Press, 2003