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  • 2010-2014  (5)
  • American Studies
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  • 1
    Book
    Book
    University Park, Pa : Pennsylvania State University Press
    ISBN: 9780271059815
    Language: English
    Pages: xix, 184 S
    Year of publication: 2013
    DDC: 813/.54
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    Keywords: Potok, Chaim Criticism and interpretation ; Judaism and literature History 20th century ; Jewish fiction History and criticism ; Jews in literature ; Modernism (Literature) ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Potok, Chaim 1929-2002
    Abstract: "A collection of essays exploring the work of Jewish American novelist Chaim Potok, with emphasis on his efforts to reconcile the appeal of modernity and the pull of traditional Judaism"--Provided by publisher
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , The chosen : defining American Judaism , The chosen : defining American Judaism , Guardians of the Torah : ambiguity and antagonism in The promise , Daedalus redeemed : Asher Lev's journey from rebellion to rapprochement , Davita's harp : the silence of violence and the limits of the imagination , The book of lights : a book of choices , History and responsibility : an assessment of Potok's "non-Jewish" I am the clay , Choosing the chosen : a reappraisal of The chosen , Chaim Potok : a Zwischenmensch ("between person") in the cultures , Chaim Potok and the question of Jewish writing , Chaim Potok : a literary biography , Chaim Potok is no longer with us, but his lessons remain , Adena Potok on I am the clay , Chaim Potok : my life as a writer , The three-pronged dialectic : understanding conflict in Potok's early fiction , Guardians of the Torah : ambiguity and antagonism in The promise , Daedalus redeemed : Asher Lev's journey from rebellion to rapprochement , Davita's harp : the silence of violence and the limits of the imagination , The book of lights : a book of choices , History and responsibility : an assessment of Potok's "non-Jewish" I am the clay , Choosing the chosen : a reappraisal of The chosen , Chaim Potok : a Zwischenmensch ("between person") in the cultures , Chaim Potok and the question of Jewish writing , Chaim Potok : a literary biography , Chaim Potok is no longer with us, but his lessons remain , Adena Potok on I am the clay , Chaim Potok : my life as a writer
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  • 2
    ISBN: 3518423681 , 9783518423684
    Language: German
    Pages: 1025 S. , Kt.
    Edition: 1. Aufl.
    Year of publication: 2013
    Uniform Title: Europe central 〈dt.〉
    DDC: 810
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    Keywords: Germany Social life and customs ; Fiction ; Soviet Union Social life and customs ; Fiction ; Germany Social life and customs ; Fiction ; Soviet Union Social life and customs ; Fiction
    Abstract: William T. Vollmann ist einer der bedeutendsten amerikanischen Autoren der Gegengenwart und "Europe Central" sein bestes Buch ein Epos in Übergröe︢, das acht Jahre nach der amerikanischen Veröffentlichung und nach mehreren Übersetzungsanläufen endlich auf Deutsch erscheint. "Europe Central" ist ein historischer Roman mit Abweichungen, ein "Krieg und Frieden" für das 21. Jahrhundert, ein postmodernes Epos aus 37 teils umfangreichen Geschichten, die, paarweise zusammengespannt, den zweiten Weltkrieg auf sowjetischer und deutscher Seite heraufbeschwören, indem sie das Leben von Künstlern (wie Käthe Kollwitz und Dmitiri Schostakowitsch) und Militärs (wie Wlassow und Paulus, dem Verlierer von Stalingrad) und vielen anderen erzählen
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  • 3
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    Book
    Ithaca, NY [u.a.] : Cornell Univ. Press
    ISBN: 9780801450877
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 239 S.
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Year of publication: 2012
    DDC: 810.9/8924
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    Keywords: American literature Jewish authors ; History and criticism ; Judaism and literature History 20th century ; Judaism and literature History 21st century ; Jews Intellectual life ; Judaism in literature ; Jews in literature ; USA ; Literatur ; Juden ; Geschichte 1969-2012 ; USA ; Juden ; Literatur ; Geschichte 1969-2011
    Abstract: Introduction : the politics and ethics of Jewish American literature and criticism -- Portnoy's complaint : it's about race, not sex (even the sex is about race) -- Re-reading Cynthia Ozick : pluralism, postmodernism, and the multicultural encounter -- The new, new pluralism : religion, community, and secularity in Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls -- Recognition and effacement in Lore Segal's Her first American -- Responsibility unveiled : Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul -- Globalization's complaint : Gary Shteyngart's Absurdistan and the culture of culture -- Epilogue : less Absurdistan, more Boyle Heights
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : the politics and ethics of Jewish American literature and criticism -- Portnoy's complaint : it's about race, not sex (even the sex is about race) -- Re-reading Cynthia Ozick : pluralism, postmodernism, and the multicultural encounter -- The new, new pluralism : religion, community, and secularity in Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls -- Recognition and effacement in Lore Segal's Her first American -- Responsibility unveiled : Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul -- Globalization's complaint : Gary Shteyngart's Absurdistan and the culture of culture -- Epilogue : less Absurdistan, more Boyle Heights.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 4
    ISBN: 0815609604 , 9780815609605
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 186 S. , 24 cm
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Year of publication: 2011
    Series Statement: Religion, theology, and the Holocaust
    DDC: 191.092
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    Keywords: Steiner, George Criticism and interpretation ; Civilization, Modern Philosophy 20th century ; Biografie ; Steiner, George 1929-2020 ; Steiner, George 1929-2020 ; Kulturkritik ; Essay
    Abstract: Exile and edification -- Early writings, 1952-1961 -- Surviving in Cambridge, 1961-1974 -- Translation and treason, 1974-1985 -- The meaning of meaning, 1985-2007
    Description / Table of Contents: Exile and edification -- Early writings, 1952-1961 -- Surviving in Cambridge, 1961-1974 -- Translation and treason, 1974-1985 -- The meaning of meaning, 1985-2007.
    Note: Formerly CIP. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-182) and index
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  • 5
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    Book
    Princeton, N.J. [u.a.] : Princeton Univ. Press
    ISBN: 9780691128818 , 0691128812
    Language: English
    Pages: 198 S. , 22 cm
    Year of publication: 2010
    DDC: 810.9/3822
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    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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