| A House of Words: Jewish Writing, Identity, and Memory Volume 27 Contributor(s): Ravvin, Norman (Author) |
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ISBN: 0773516646 ISBN-13: 9780773516649 Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press OUR PRICE: $108.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1997 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Jewish - Literary Criticism | Canadian |
| Dewey: 813.540 |
| LCCN: 98219968 |
| Lexile Measure: 1510 |
| Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History; Series One |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 6.3" W x 9.36" (0.88 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Arguing that Jewish North American writing is too commonly discussed as part of the mainstream, neglecting the Jewish aspects of the works, Ravvin places the writing of Bellow, Richler, Cohen, West, Mandel, Roth, and Rosenfarb within the Jewish context that the works demand. Ravvin depicts a Jewish cultural landscape within which postwar writers contend with community and identity, continuity and loss, and highlights the way this particular landscape is entangled with broader literary and cultural traditions. He considers Bellow and West alongside apocalyptic narratives, discusses Cohen in relation to the counterculture, examines Mandel's postmodern view of history, and looks at autobiography and ethics in Roth and Rosenfarb. At once scholarly and poetic, A House of Words will appeal to the general reader of Canadian, American, and Jewish literature and history, as well as to specialists in these fields. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ravvin, Norman: - CA |