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- catalog abstract "Focusing on the way Jewish history - particularly the Holocaust - and tradition inform post-war Canadian and American Jewish literature, A House of Words offers innovative readings of the works of such influential writers as Saul Bellow, Leonard Cohen, Eli Mandel, Mordecai Richler, Chava Rosenfarb, Philip Roth, and Nathanael West. Norman Ravvin highlights the concerns that these disparate writers share as Jewish writers, as well as placing their work in the context of the broader traditions of multiculturalism, post-colonial writing, and critical theory. 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.".
- catalog contributor b10441968.
- catalog coverage "North America Intellectual life.".
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "Focusing on the way Jewish history - particularly the Holocaust - and tradition inform post-war Canadian and American Jewish literature, A House of Words offers innovative readings of the works of such influential writers as Saul Bellow, Leonard Cohen, Eli Mandel, Mordecai Richler, Chava Rosenfarb, Philip Roth, and Nathanael West. Norman Ravvin highlights the concerns that these disparate writers share as Jewish writers, as well as placing their work in the context of the broader traditions of multiculturalism, post-colonial writing, and critical theory. 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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: this world and others -- pt. 1. What sort of home is the past? -- Forethought: building a house of words -- Eli Mandel's family architecture: building a house of words on the prairies -- Writing around the Holocaust: uncovering the ethical centre of Leonard Cohen's Beautiful losers -- Taking the victims' side: Mordecai Richler's response to the Holocaust in St. Urbain's horseman -- pt. 2. Strange presences -- Forethought: facing up to the past -- Strange presences on the family tree: the unacknowledged literary father in Philip Roth's The Prague orgy -- Philip Roth's literary ghost: rereading Anne Frank -- Ghost writing: Chava Rosenfarb's The tree of life.".
- catalog description "pt. 3. Confronting apocalypse -- Forethought: on refusing to end -- Apocalypse stalled: the role of traditional archetype and symbol in Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts and The day of the locust -- An end to endings: Saul Bellow's anti-apocalyptic novel -- pt. 4. The collaborator -- Forethought -- Warring with shadows: the Holocaust and the academy -- Conclusion: in search of a multicultural tradition.".
- catalog extent "x, 191 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0773516646 (bound)".
- catalog identifier "0773516654 (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history ; [26]".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Canada".
- catalog spatial "Canada.".
- catalog spatial "North America Intellectual life.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "American fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American fiction Jewish authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "C813/.54098924 21".
- catalog subject "Canadian fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Canadian fiction Jewish authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Group identity in literature.".
- catalog subject "Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.".
- catalog subject "Jews Canada Intellectual life.".
- catalog subject "Jews United States Intellectual life.".
- catalog subject "Jews in literature.".
- catalog subject "Judaism and literature Canada.".
- catalog subject "Judaism and literature United States.".
- catalog subject "Memory in literature.".
- catalog subject "PS374.J48 R38 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: this world and others -- pt. 1. What sort of home is the past? -- Forethought: building a house of words -- Eli Mandel's family architecture: building a house of words on the prairies -- Writing around the Holocaust: uncovering the ethical centre of Leonard Cohen's Beautiful losers -- Taking the victims' side: Mordecai Richler's response to the Holocaust in St. Urbain's horseman -- pt. 2. Strange presences -- Forethought: facing up to the past -- Strange presences on the family tree: the unacknowledged literary father in Philip Roth's The Prague orgy -- Philip Roth's literary ghost: rereading Anne Frank -- Ghost writing: Chava Rosenfarb's The tree of life.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 3. Confronting apocalypse -- Forethought: on refusing to end -- Apocalypse stalled: the role of traditional archetype and symbol in Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts and The day of the locust -- An end to endings: Saul Bellow's anti-apocalyptic novel -- pt. 4. The collaborator -- Forethought -- Warring with shadows: the Holocaust and the academy -- Conclusion: in search of a multicultural tradition.".
- catalog title "A house of words : Jewish writing, identity and memory / Norman Ravvin.".
- catalog type "text".