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Pen of iron : American prose and the King James Bible (2010)

Alter, Robert

Princeton, N.J. [u.a.] : Princeton Univ. Press

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ISBN: 9780691128818 , 0691128812

Language: English

Pages: 198 S. , 22 cm

Year of publication: 2010

DDC: 810.9/3822

RVK:

HI 1475

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HR 1121

Keywords: Bible Versions ; Authorized ; History ; Bible In literature ; Bible and literature ; American literature History and criticism ; Englisch ; Übersetzung ; Bibel ; Rezeption ; USA ; Prosa ; Geschichte ; Bible ; English ; Versions ; Authorized ; Influence ; Bible ; In literature ; American literature ; History and criticism ; Bible and literature ; Bibel ; Rezeption ; USA ; Roman ; Geschichte ; Literatur

Abstract: In this book, biblical translator and literary critic Robert Alter traces some of the fascinating ways that American novelists--from Melville, Hemingway, and Faulkner to Bellow, Marilynne Robinson, and Cormac McCarthy--have drawn on the rich stylistic resources of the canonical English Bible to fashion their own strongly resonant styles and distinctive visions of reality. --from publisher description

Description / Table of Contents: America as a Scriptural cultureStyle in America and the King James version -- Moby-Dick : polyphonu -- Absalom! Absalom! : lexicon -- Seize the day : American amalgam -- The world through parataxis.

Note: Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index

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The writer uprooted : contemporary Jewish exile literature (2008)

Rosenfeld, Alvin H. [Hrsg.]

Bloomington, Ind. [u.a.] : Indiana Univ. Press

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ISBN: 9780253219817 , 9780253351449 , 0253219817 , 0253351448

Language: English

Pages: XVI, 254 S. , 24cm

Year of publication: 2008

Series Statement: Jewish literature and culture

Parallel Title: Online-Ausg. Rosenfeld, Alvin H., 1938 - Writer Uprooted

DDC: 810.9/8924

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HU 1729

Keywords: American literature Jewish authors ; History and criticism ; American literature History and criticism 20th century ; Jewish authors ; Exiles' writings History and criticism ; Immigrants ; Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature ; Jews Intellectual life ; USA ; Exilliteratur ; Juden ; Osteuropa ; Geschichte 1880-1989 ; Kongress ; Bloomington 〈Ind., 2006〉 ; American literature Jewish authors ; History and criticism ; American literature 20th century ; History and criticism ; Exiles' writings History and criticism ; Jewish authors Europe, Eastern ; Jews United States ; Intellectual life ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Exilliteratur ; Juden ; Osteuropa ; Geschichte 1880-1989

Description / Table of Contents: Nomadic language / Norman Manea -- On Norman Manea's The hooligan's return / Matei Calinescu -- Writing about uprootedness / Henryk Grynberg -- Exile as life after death in the writings of Henryk Grynberg and Norman Manea / Katarzyna Jerzak -- The writer as tour guide / Lara Vapnyar -- Questions of identity : the new world of the immigrant writer / Morris Dickstein -- A displaced scholar's tale : the Jewish factor / Geoffrey Hartman -- Exile : inside and out / Bronislava Volková -- From country to country : my search for home / Zsuzsanna Ozsváth -- Finding a virtual home for Yiddish poetry in Southern Indiana / Dov-Ber Kerler

Note: Includes index. - Formerly CIP

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Call it English : the languages of Jewish American literature (2006)

Wirth-Nesher, Hana 1948-

Princeton, NJ [u.a.] : Princeton Univ. Press

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ISBN: 9780691138442 , 0691121524 , 9780691121529

Language: English

Pages: XV, 224 S. , Ill.

Year of publication: 2006

DDC: 810.98924

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HU 1729

Keywords: American literature Jewish authors ; History and criticism ; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature ; Jews Intellectual life ; Judaism and literature ; Language and languages in literature ; Jews Languages ; Multilingualism ; Bilingualism ; Jews in literature ; American literature Jewish authors ; History and criticism ; Holocaust, Jewish 1939-1945, in literature ; Jews United States ; Intellectual life ; Judaism and literature United States ; Language and languages in literature ; Jews United States ; Languages ; Multilingualism United States ; Bilingualism United States ; Jews in literature ; United States Literatures History and criticism ; United States Literatures ; History and criticism ; Juden ; USA ; Literatur ; Mehrsprachigkeit ; Geschichte 1880-2000 ; USA ; Jüdische Literatur ; Sprache

Note: Literaturverz. S. [203] - 214 , Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke

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Telling the little secrets : American Jewish writing since the 1980's (2006)

Burstein, Janet Handler ; Burstein, Janet

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press

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ISBN: 0299212408 , 9780299212407

Language: English

Pages: XV, 264 S. , 24 cm

Year of publication: 2006

DDC: 810.989240904

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HU 1729

Keywords: American literature Jewish authors ; History and criticism ; Judaism and literature History ; 20th century ; United States ; American literature History and criticism ; 20th century ; Jews Intellectual life ; United States ; Judaism in literature ; Jews in literature ; USA ; Literatur ; Juden ; Geschichte 1980-2005

Description / Table of Contents: Riddling identity : the gates of Roth -- Writing the pathos of belatedness : second generation memoirs -- Voice and mourning in the aftermath : second generation fictions -- Recalling "home" from exile -- Portnoy's successors : gendered ethnicity and the embodying of Jewish men -- Becoming rubies : engendering Jewish women -- Midrash as undertow : looking back and moving forward

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Knocking on heaven's door : American religion in the age of counterculture (2003)

Oppenheimer, Mark

New Haven, Conn. [u.a.] : Yale Univ. Press

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ISBN: 0300100248

Language: English

Pages: IX, 284 S. , Ill.

Year of publication: 2003

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HR 1705

Keywords: Counterculture ; History ; 20th century ; United States ; United States ; Religion ; 20th century ; United states ; Social conditions ; 20th century ; USA ; Gegenkultur ; Religion ; Soziale Situation ; Geschichte 1900-2000

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The Jewishness of Isaac Bashevis Singer (2003)

Qiao, Guo Qiang 1957-

Oxford : Lang

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ISBN: 3906769747 , 0820459119

Language: English

Pages: 272 S

Year of publication: 2003

DDC: 839.133

RVK:

HU 8425

Keywords: Singer, Isaac Bashevis Criticism and interpretation ; Singer, Isaac Bashevis ; Jews Identity ; Jews Intellectual life ; United States ; American literature Jewish authors ; History and criticism ; Judaism and literature United States ; Judaism in literature ; Jews in literature ; Jews Identity ; Jews United States ; Intellectual life ; American literature Jewish authors ; History and criticism ; Singer, Isaac Bashevis 1902-1991 ; Judentum ; Singer, Isaac Bashevis 1902-1991 ; Judentum

Description / Table of Contents: Literaturverz. S. 257 - 268

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

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Legacy of rage : Jewish masculinity, violence, and culture (2001)

Rosenberg, Warren [Verfasser]

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press

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ISBN: 1558493034

Language: English

Pages: XI, 312 S.

Year of publication: 2001

DDC: 813/.50935203924

RVK:

HU 1691

RVK:

NY 4000

Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Juden ; American fiction Jewish authors ; History and criticism ; American fiction History and criticism 20th century ; Jews in literature ; Jews Intellectual life ; Judaism and literature ; Masculinity in literature ; Violence in literature ; Gewalt ; Literatur ; Juden ; Männlichkeit ; Autor ; USA ; USA ; USA ; Literatur ; Juden ; Autor ; Männlichkeit ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; USA ; Literatur ; Juden ; Autor ; Gewalt ; Geschichte 1900-2000

Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-300) and index

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Female spectacle : the theatrical roots of modern feminism (2000)

Glenn, Susan A.

Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : Harvard University Press

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ISBN: 0674003330

Language: English

Pages: X, 294, [16] S. , Ill.

Year of publication: 2000

DDC: 792/.082/0973

RVK:

HU 1784

Keywords: Women in the theater United States ; History ; 20th century ; Women in the theater United States ; History ; 19th century ; Actresses United States ; Biography ; Feminism and theater United States ; Women in the theater History ; 19th century ; United States ; Women in the theater History ; 20th century ; United States ; Actresses Biography ; United States ; USA ; Feminismus ; Theater ; Aufführung ; Schauspielerin ; Geschichte 1880-2000

Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-273) and index

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Enlarging America : the cultural work of Jewish literary scholars, 1930 - 1990 (1998)

Klingenstein, Susanne 1959-

Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press

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ISBN: 0815605404 , 0815605412

Language: English

Pages: XXXIV, 492 S. , Ill.

Year of publication: 1998

Series Statement: Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art

DDC: 973/.04924

RVK:

HU 1080

Keywords: Jewish college teachers United States ; Biography ; Jews United States ; Biography ; Critics United States ; Biography ; Jews United States ; Intellectual life ; Jews Biography ; United States ; Jewish critics Biography ; United States ; Jews Intellectual life ; United States ; Jewish college teachers Biography ; United States ; United States Civilization ; Jewish influences ; Biografie ; USA ; Juden ; Geschichte 1930-1990 ; USA ; Literaturwissenschaftler ; Geschichte 1930-1990

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

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Encounters with the "Holy Land : place, past and future in American Jewish culture (1997)

Shandler, Jeffrey [Hrsg.] ; Wenger, Beth S.

Hanover, NH : Univ. Press of New England | Hanover [u.a.] : Univ. Press of New England

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ISBN: 1891507001 , 1891507001

Language: English

Pages: 104 S. , Ill. , 26 cm

Year of publication: 1997

Series Statement: The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series 28

DDC: 305.8924073

RVK:

HU 1729

Keywords: Zionism ; United States ; Exhibitions ; Palestine ; Description and travel ; Exhibitions ; Americans ; Travel ; Palestine ; Exhibitions ; Jews ; Palestine ; History ; 20th century ; Exhibitions ; Ausstellungskatalog ; USA ; Judentum ; Palästinabild

Note: Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition "Holy Land" : American encounters with the land of Israel in the century before statehood, 23 January-5 July 1998 , Includes bibliographical references

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From Shtetl to suburbia : the family in Jewish literary imagination (1978)

Gittleman, Sol

Boston : Beacon Press

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ISBN: 0807063649

Language: English

Pages: VIII, 209 S.

Year of publication: 1978

DDC: 839.09

RVK:

HR 1704

Keywords: Yiddish literature History and criticism ; American literature Jewish authors ; History and criticism ; Jews Intellectual life ; Judaism and literature ; Families in literature ; Jews in literature ; Jewish families ; USA ; Literatur ; Juden ; Familie ; Juden ; Literatur ; Familie

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Jewish publishing in America : the impact of Jewish writing on American culture (1976)

Madison, Charles Allan

New York : Sanhedrin Press

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ISBN: 0884829022

Language: English

Pages: 294 S , Ill

Year of publication: 1976

DDC: 071/.3

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AP 29400

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HR 1520

Keywords: Jewish publishing ; United States ; History ; Yiddish literature ; United States ; History and criticism ; Jewish periodicals ; United States ; History ; United States ; Intellectual life ; USA ; Literatur ; Juden ; Geschichte 1800-1970 ; USA ; Juden ; Publizistik

Note: Bibliography: p. 287-289 , Includes index

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