Jewish American Literature since 1945: An Introduction

ISBN-13: 9781579581961 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 180 str.

Stephen Wade

Opis

A guide to the major writers, their key works, and their cultural and philosophical backgrounds. Wade (English, U. of Huddersfield, England) also explores the various theoretical underpinnings of the literature, including the postmodern, the masternarrative, and the metafiction. Annotation c. Book

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 The Historical and Literary Foundations; Chapter 2 Seminal Influences; Chapter 3 Jewish-American Themes in Fiction I; Chapter 4 Jewish-American Themes in Fiction II; Chapter 5 Explorations in Drama; Chapter 6 Poetry Across the Generations; Chapter 7 The Mediation of Jewishness in Cultural Texts; Chapter 8 Relocating Moralism in Jewish America; Chapter 9 New Directions Across the Generations; Chapter 10 Conclusion;

O autorze

Stephen Wade is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Huddersfield, England, and author of Christopher Isherwood (Macmillan, 1991) and Three Jewish American Novels (English Association, 1995).