Howard Jacobson´s Novels in the Context of Contemporary British Jewish Literature / Petr Anténe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anténe, Petr, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish literature--History and criticism.

Jewish literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (168 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Olomouc, Czech Republic : Palacký University, [2019]

Summary:

The novelist Howard Jacobson, who received the 2010 Booker Prize for The Finkler Question, has often been characterized as the ""British Philip Roth"",although he himself prefers to be viewed as the ""Jewish Jane Austen"". This monograph concludes that both comparisons may be used to comment on various features of Jacobson's oeuvre. Like Roth, Jacobson tends to focus on male Jewish protagonists and intimate relations between the sexes. Like Austen, he portrays a certain social class, whether it be the British Jewish minority or the social world of British writers and university professors.

Contents:

Intro

Introduction

1 University Settings and Intertextual Perspectives in the Novels of the 1980s

1.1 Coming from Behind as a British Jewish Campus Novel

1.2 "Prurient little Victorian ratbag"? Dealing with the Shadow of Thomas Hardy in Peeping Tom

1.3 An Englishman's Quest to Australia in Redback

2 Revisiting the Old Testament in The Very Model of a Man

3 Sex, Class and the Erasure of Jewishness in No More Mr Nice Guy and Who's Sorry Now?

4 Variations on Jewish Themes

4.1 "Life is but a tsatske and tomorrow we may die": The Tragicomedy of The Mighty Walzer

4.2 "The most Jewish novel by anybody, anywhere": Kalooki Nights

4.3 Jewishness as a Lesson in Humanity: Self-Acceptance and Empathy in The Finkler Question

5 Lives in and beyond Fiction in The Act of Love and Zoo Time

6 Imagining the Future, Reimagining the Past

6.1 The Holocaust as the Unspoken Future in J

6.2 The Merchant of Venice as an Early 21st Century British Jewish Novel: Shylock Is My Name

6.3 "An affront to writers everywhere": A Hypothetical Exploration of Donald Trump's Life in Pussy

7 Aging, Gender and Memory in The Making of Henry and Live a Little

Conclusion

Works Cited

Works by Howard Jacobson

Secondary sources

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Other Format:

Print version: Anténe, Petr Howard Jacobson´s Novels in the Context of Contemporary British Jewish Literature

ISBN:

9788024456539

OCLC:

1443086079

Publisher Number:

10.5507/pdf.19.24456515 DOI