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Anzia Yezierska : a writer's life
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ISBN: 0813512689 Year: 1988 Publisher: New Brunswick London Rutgers University Press

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Scripta Lichenologica : Lichenological Papers dedicated to Antonin Vezda
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ISBN: 3443580378 Year: 1995 Publisher: Lehre : J. Cramer,

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New York City : "gilt cage" or "promised land"? Representations of urban space in Edith Wharton and Anzia Yezierska
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ISBN: 9783034305815 3034305818 Year: 2011 Publisher: Bern : Lang,

The rise of public woman : woman's power and woman's place in the United States, 1630-1970
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ISBN: 0195054601 Year: 1992 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Oxford university press

Jewish American literature since 1945 : an introduction
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ISBN: 1853312266 1474473385 Year: 1999 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh university press,

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Jewish American writing is an exciting and controversial genre within post-war literature. In this book Stephen Wade offers a student guide to major writers, their key works and to influential background factors including the postmodern, the masternarrative and metafiction. The themes, issues and philosophies of writers including Saul Bellow, Philip Roth and Isaac Bashevis Singer are inter-related and wider literary and historical topics are alluded to and explained. Covering women's writing, novels, poetry and drama, the author offers a readable guide to the achievements of a key group of writers in twentieth-century American literature.Key FeaturesA student guide to major writers in post-war American literatureA chapter on each of the 5 main writersCovers theoretical aspects -- the postmodern, the masternarrative and metafiction -- in an easily accessible wayOffers background material to situate the work of the writers

Exiles on main street : Jewish American writers and American literary culture
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ISBN: 9780253350817 0253350816 9786611785666 1281785660 0253000289 Year: 2008 Volume: *6 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press,

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How have Jews reshaped their identities as Jews in the face of the radical newness called America? Julian Levinson explores the ways in which exposure to American literary culture -- in particular the visionary tradition identified with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman -- led American Jewish writers to a new understanding of themselves as Jews. Discussing the lives and work of writers such as Emma Lazarus, Mary Antin, Ludwig Lewisohn, Waldo Frank, Anzia Yezierska, I. J. Schwartz, Alfred Kazin, and


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Flora of Australia.
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ISBN: 0643056769 Year: 1994 Publisher: Canberra : CSIRO - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization,

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Short stories for students. : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied short stories
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ISBN: 141442826X 0787642673 Year: 2002 Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale,

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Presents vital information on the most-studied short stories at the high school and early-college levels. Each entry contains author biography, plot summary, characters, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.


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Novels for students. : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied novels
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ISBN: 0787686867 1414449453 Year: 2009 Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale,

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Provides critical overviews of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the work's cultural and historical significance.


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Beyond Gatsby : how Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and writers of the 1920s shaped American culture
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ISBN: 9781442247086 Year: 2015 Volume: *4 Publisher: Lanham ; London : Rowman & Littlefield,

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