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The representation of the city in Jewish-American literature of the 1930s : an analysis of selected novels by Michael Gold, Daniel Fuchs, Charles Reznikoff and Henry Roth / Paulina Nassalska-Hubert.
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Nassalska-Hubert, Paulina, author.
- Series:
- Schriftenreihe Studien zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik ; 29.
- Schriftenreihe Studien zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gold, Michael, 1894-1967. Jews without money.
- Fuchs, Daniel, 1909-1993. Summer in Williamsburg.
- Reznikoff, Charles, 1894-1976. By the waters of Manhattan.
- Roth, Henry, 1906-1995. Call it sleep.
- American fiction--20th century--Jewish authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Jews in literature.
- American fiction--Jewish authors.
- Jewish authors.
- Local Subjects:
- Gold, Michael, 1894-1967. Jews without money.
- Fuchs, Daniel, 1909-1993. Summer in Williamsburg.
- Reznikoff, Charles, 1894-1976. By the waters of Manhattan.
- Roth, Henry, 1906-1995. Call it sleep.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Academic theses.
- Physical Description:
- 293 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Hamburg : Verlag Dr. Kovač, 2015.
- Summary:
- "The 1930s constituted a shift in the Jewish-American literature. It was the time when the first American-born Jewish authors, among them Michael Gold, Daniel Fuchs, Charles Reznikoff and Henry Roth, came to voice and began to give expression to their anxieties, fears, and anger. Their fiction was necessarily urban. Big metropolises, primarily New York, where the Jewish population gathered in masses, become here the stage where the drama of the coming-of-age in a multiethnic, multicultural and multilingual environment plays itself out. The urban space they show is naturally divided. One part occupies 'home', associated with the Old World, the immigrant parents and Yiddish. The other is the 'street', often a street of the ghetto, which stands for the challenges of the New World, the English language and culture. As its primary focus the author of this study chose the representation of the city in the following four novels: Jews Without Money (1930) by Michael Gold, Summer in Williamsburg (1934) by Daniel Fuchs, By the Waters of Manhattan (1930) by Charles Reznikoff, and Call It Sleep (1934) by Henry Roth"--Publisher's website.
- Notes:
- Zugl.: Dissertation, Universität Flensburg, 2015.
- ISBN:
- 9783830086406
- 3830086407
- OCLC:
- 951791467
- Publisher Number:
- 9783830086406
- Online:
- Detailed description
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