Language:
English
Year of publication:
2010
Titel der Quelle:
Studies in American Jewish Literature
Angaben zur Quelle:
29 (2010) 40-47
Keywords:
Lazarus, Emma,
;
Steinberg, Milton,
;
Roth, Philip.
;
American literature Jewish authors
;
Jewish literature History and criticism
;
Hellenism in literature
Abstract:
I propose that we look at rejections of idolatries and examine their presence in several seminal works that span some 125 years: Emma Lazarus's "Venus of the Louvre" (1884); Milton Steinberg's "As a Driven Leaf" (1939); and Philip Roth's "The Human Stain" (2000). I shall focus specifically on their presentation of the conflicts between Jerusalem and Athens: the former, a metaphor for the keeping of the Law; the latter, a metonym for the often described idolizing and idolatrous free-spirited psyche of Greece and Rome.
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