A house of words : Jewish writing, identity and memory /
| Основен автор: | Ravvin, Norman, 1963- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Montreal [Que.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
℗♭1997.
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| Серия: |
McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history.
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Print version::
House of words. |
Съдържание:
- Introduction: this world and others
- pt. 1. What sort of home is the past?
- Forethought: building a house of words
- Eli Mandel's family architecture: building a house of words on the prairies
- Writing around the Holocaust: uncovering the ethical centre of Leonard Cohen's Beautiful losers
- Taking the victims' side: Mordecai Richler's response to the Holocaust in St. Urbain's horseman
- pt. 2. Strange presences
- Forethought: facing up to the past
- Strange presences on the family tree: the unacknowledged literary father in Philip Roth's The Prague orgy
- Philip Roth's literary ghost: rereading Anne Frank
- Ghost writing: Chava Rosenfarb's The tree of life.
- pt. 3. Confronting apocalypse
- Forethought: on refusing to end
- Apocalypse stalled: the role of traditional archetype and symbol in Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts and The day of the locust
- An end to endings: Saul Bellow's anti-apocalyptic novel
- pt. 4. The collaborator
- Forethought
- Warring with shadows: the Holocaust and the academy
- Conclusion: in search of a multicultural tradition.