The Edinburgh Companion to Modern Jewish Fiction Contributor(s): Brauner, David (Editor), Stähler, Axel (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0748646159 ISBN-13: 9780748646159 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $218.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Jewish - Literary Criticism | Reference |
Dewey: 823.914 |
LCCN: 2015431353 |
Series: Edinburgh Companions to Literature Eup |
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6.6" W x 9.6" (2.40 lbs) 456 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Provides critical overviews of the main writers and key themes of Anglophone Jewish fiction This collection of essays represents a new departure for, and a potentially (re)defining moment in, literary Jewish Studies. It is the first volume to bring together essays covering a wide range of American, British, South African, Canadian and Australian Jewish fiction. Moreover, it complicates all these terms, emphasising the porousness between different national traditions and moving beyond traditional definitions of Jewishness. For the sake of structural clarity, the volume is divided into three parts - 'American Jewish Fiction', 'British Jewish Fiction' and 'International and Transnational Anglophone Jewish Fiction' - but many of the essays cross over these boundaries and speak to each other implicitly, as well as, on occasion, explicitly. Extending and redefining the canon of modern Jewish fiction, the volume juxtaposes major authors with more marginal figures, revising and recuperating individual reputations, rediscovering forgotten and discovering new work, and in the process remapping the whole terrain. This volume opens windows onto vistas that previously had been obscured and opens doors for the next generation of studies that could not proceed without a wide-ranging, visionary empiricism grounding their work. The Edinburgh Companion is a paradigm-changing event, and nothing in Jewish literary studies that follows can fail to pay close attention to it. Key Features:
David Brauner is Professor of Contemporary Literature at The University of Reading. Axel Stähler is Reader in Comparative Literature at the University of Kent, Canterbury. |