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The Edinburgh companion to modern Jewish fiction / edited by David Brauner and Axel Stahler.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Edinburgh Companions to Literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--Jewish authors--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- American fiction--Jewish authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- English fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
- Jewish fiction--History and criticism.
- Jewish fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (458 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh. [Scotland] : Edinburgh University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book provides a critical overviews of the main writers and key themes of Anglophone Jewish fiction; highlighting the rich diversity of the field, identifying key themes, analysing the main trends in Anglophone Jewish fiction and situating them in a historical context.
- Contents:
- Title page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preface: Jews Have Legs ; Introduction: Modern Jewish Fiction ; Part I American Jewish Fiction ; 1 Pioneering American Jewish Women Writers Pioneering Women Writers and the De-ghettoisation of Early American Jewish Fiction; 2 Sensibilities of Estrangement: Delmore Schwartz, Isaac Rosenfeld and Saul Bellow ; 3 The Making of Postwar American Jewish Identities The Making of American Jewish Identities in Postwar American Fiction
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781785397721
- 1785397729
- 9780748646166
- 0748646167
- OCLC:
- 1301549088
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