Jewish writers/Irish writers : selected essays on the love of words / Maurice Wohlgelernter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wohlgelernter, Maurice, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

Judaism and literature--English-speaking countries.

Judaism and literature.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, [England] ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2017.

Summary:

These essays on representative Jewish and Irish writers are true to the form's definition as an attempt or experiment rather than a credo. Wohlgelernter defines the author's "excited imagination" by thoroughgoing analysis of the work's constituent parts.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Dedication

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

A Word to the Reader

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Between My Finger and My Thumb, or, Text and Context

Part I: Down There

1. Silent Preparation

2. One, by One, by One . . . And Counting

3. Facing Medusa Without Mirrors

4. Down There

Part II: Literate, Liberatize, Liberate

5. Don't Stop the World

6. Blood Libel-Fact and Fiction

7. Life and Counterlife

8. Of Fathers and Artichokes

9. Cantorial Mi Mi Mi's

Part III: The Cause that Called You

10. A Portrait of the Artist as an Only Child

11. Of the Sane and the Insane

12. Golem Redux

Part IV: Life Studies

13. A Letter to a Harvard Divinity Student

14. Of Messages and Their Messenger

15. A Bodyguard of Lies

16. The Norman Conquest and the Schoolteacher

17. Watercoloring

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed January 3, 2018).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-351-51084-3

OCLC:

1004365559