Not one of them in place : modern poetry and Jewish American identity / Norman Finkelstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Finkelstein, Norman, 1954-

Series:

SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--Jewish authors--History and criticism.

American poetry.

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Jews--United States--Intellectual life.

Jews.

American poetry--Jewish authors.

United States.

Intellectual life.

Jews in literature.

Group identity in literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 194 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2001]

Contents:

Introduction: The Traditions of Jewish American Poetry 1

1 Tradition and Modernity: Charles Reznikoff and the Test of (Jewish) Poetry 17

2 Jewish American Modernism and the Problem of Identity: With Special Reference to the Work of Louis Zukofsky 35

3 Allen Grossman's Theophoric Poetics 55

4 Between Poland and Sumer: The Ethnopoetics of Jerome Rothenberg and Armand Schwerner 87

5 Objectivist Continuities: Harvey Shapiro, Michael Heller, Hugh Seidman 121

Afterword: Saying Kaddish: Holiness, Death, and the Jewish Difference in Poetry 173.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-189) and index.

ISBN:

0791449831

079144984X

OCLC:

45699067