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Never better! : the modern Jewish picaresque / Miriam Udel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Udel, Miriam, author.
- Series:
- Michigan studies in comparative Jewish cultures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marginality, Social, in literature.
- Yiddish literature--History and criticism.
- Yiddish literature.
- Jews in literature.
- Outsiders in literature.
- Picaresque literature--Themes, motives.
- Picaresque literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (267 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- It was only when Jewish writers gave up on the lofty Enlightenment ideals of progress and improvement that the Yiddish novel could decisively enter modernity.Animating their fictions were a set of unheroic heroes who struck a precarious balance between sanguinity and irony that author Miriam Udel captures through the phrase "never better." With.
- Contents:
- In life, but not of it: the modernist picaresque
- Sharks and marks: the swindles and seductions of modernity
- Living serially: Neoteny and the polit
- The polit at the waning of Haskalah : demobilized soldiers, demobilized Jews
- Steel and iron: a study in Maskilic manhood
- Spillage and shards: the polit between the wars
- The polit under tsars and stripes
- You must to dare! Afterlives of the polit.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-240) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472121731
- 0472121731
- OCLC:
- 948511612
- Publisher Number:
- 10.3998/mpub.8834858
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