Isaac Bashevis Singer : his work and his world / edited by Hugh Denman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Denman, Hugh.

Series:

IJS studies in Judaica 1570-1581 ; v. 1.

IJS studies in Judaica, 1570-1581 ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991.

Singer, Isaac Bashevis.

Authors, Yiddish--Biography.

Authors, Yiddish.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

ix, 318 pages : portrait ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2002.

Contents:

Part I The Status of the Yiddish and English Texts

Isaac Bashevis Singer's Works in English and Yiddish: The Language and the Addressee / Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska 17

'Der yid fun bovl': Variants and Meanings / Seth Wolitz 31

Translating 'Shotns baym hodson' [Shadows on the Hudson]: Directly Encountering Isaac Bashevis Singer's Authorial Dualism / Joseph Sherman 49

Translation and Transgression: Isaac Bashevis Singer in America / Anita Norich 81

Part II Isaac Bashevis Singer: New World Perspectives

A Tale of an Umbrella: Isaac Bashevis Singer, Woody Allen and Their New York Stories / Irving Saposnik 97

Intersections and Urban Identities in Shosha and The Magician of Lublin: Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Jewish Street / Murray Baumgarten 111

Isaac Bashevis Singer and Bakhtin's Vision of the Carnivalesque / John Guzlowski 133

Part III Yitskhok Bashevis-Zinger and Poland

A Childhood on the Krokhmalne Gas and the Writings of Yitskhok Bashevis-Zinger / Chone Shmeruk 147

Yitskhok Bashevis-Zinger and the Writers' and Journalists' Association in Warsaw / Nathan Cohen 169

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Poland and American Literary History / Thomas S. Gladsky 183

Part IV Themes and Motifs

Darkness Vincible: Imagery and Enlightenment in Isaac Bashevis Singer's The Manor / David Mesher 197

Nature and the Language of Nature in Yitskhok Bashevis-Zinger's Der knekht / Leonard Prager 209

Imagery and Motivation in the Works of Yitskhok Bashevis-Zinger / Hugh Denman 227

Part V Readings and Comparisons

The Sources of Yitskhok Bashevis-Zinger's Der sotn in goray / Chava Turniansky 243

Narrative Constructs in the Works of Yitskhok Bashevis-Zinger and their Relationship to Kabbalah / Bilhah Rubinstein 265

Three "Limping Heroes": A Comparative Study of Stories by Mendele Moykher Sforim, Yitskhok Bashevis-Zinger and Smu'el-Yosef'Agnon / Gershon Shaked 273

A Comparative Structural Study of Isaac Bashevis Singer's Family-Saga Novels / Malka Shaked 287.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9004125647

OCLC:

49649807