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Bellow, Saul --- Failure (Psychology) in literature. --- Jews in literature.
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In this study of the rhetoric of American writings on language, Michael Kramer argues that the prevalent critical distinction between imaginative and nonimaginative writing is of limited theoretical use. Breaking down the artificial, disciplinary barriers between two areas of scholarly inquiry--the literature of the American Renaissance and the study of language in the United States between the Revolution and the Civil War--Kramer finds in various walks of intellectual life a broad range of writers who "imagined language" for the new experiment in self-government. Each of these men combined ideas about language with ideas about America so as to form cultural fictions, or creative renderings of the nation--its meaning, its character, and how it worked. In order to reassess American linguistic and literary nationalism, Kramer allows Noah Webster, whose influential grammatical and lexicographic works have been considered only marginal to literary history, to share the stage with more conventionally literary figures--the neglected Longfellow and the canonical Whitman. Then an essay on The Federalist and the pragmatic language-related problems faced by the founding fathers introduces revisionary analyses of two New England writers who confronted American culture and society through their Romantic critiques of language: the minister and theologian Horace Bushnell and Nathaniel Hawthorne.Originally published in 1991.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Historical linguistics --- Philosophy of language --- English language --- anno 1800-1899 --- United States --- American literature --- Americanisms --- Language and languages --- Language and languages in literature --- Linguistics --- Littérature américaine --- Américanismes --- Anglais (Langue) --- Langage et langues --- Langage et langues dans la littérature --- Linguistique --- History and criticism --- Study and teaching --- History --- Historiography --- Philosophy --- Histoire et critique --- Etude et enseignement --- Histoire --- Historiographie --- Philosophie --- 19th century --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel --- Historiography. --- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. --- Americanisms. --- English language -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History -- 19th century. --- English language -- United States -- Historiography. --- Language and languages -- Philosophy. --- Language and languages in literature. --- Linguistics -- United States -- History. --- United States of America --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Philosophy.
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Jews --- Juifs --- Literature, Modern --- Social life and customs --- Social life and customs. --- Mœurs et coutumes --- Jewish authors.
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Religious studies --- Thematology --- American literature --- Bercovitch, Sacvan --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1800-1999 --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 2000-2009
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For more than two hundred years, Jews have played important roles in the development of American literature. The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature addresses a wide array of themes and approaches to the distinct yet multifaceted body of Jewish American literature. Essays examine writing from the 1700s to major contemporary writers such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. Topics covered include literary history, immigration and acculturation, Yiddish and Hebrew literature, popular culture, women writers, literary theory and poetics, multilingualism, the Holocaust, and contemporary fiction. This collection of specially commissioned essays by leading figures discusses Jewish American literature in relation to ethnicity, religion, politics, race, gender, ideology, history, and ethics, and places it in the contexts of both Jewish and American writing. With its chronology and guides to further reading, this volume will prove valuable to scholars and students alike.
American literature --- Jewish religion --- Jews --- Jews in literature --- Judaism in literature --- Jewish authors --- History and criticism --- Intellectual life --- Jews in literature. --- Judaism and literature --- Judaism in literature. --- Amerikaanse letterkunde --- Joden --- Joods-Amerikaanse letterkunde --- Joodse godsdienst --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life. --- Joodse auteurs --- geschiedenis en kritiek --- Verenigde Staten --- geschiedenis --- letterkunde --- geschiedenis en kritiek. --- geschiedenis. --- Joden in de literatuur --- Jodendom in de literatuur --- Judaisme dans la littérature --- Juifs dans la littérature --- United States --- American literature - Jewish authors - History and criticism --- Jews - United States - Intellectual life
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Is there such a thing as a distinctive Jewish literature? While definitions have been offered, none has been universally accepted. Modern Jewish literature lacks the basic markers of national literatures: it has neither a common geography nor a shared language-though works in Hebrew or Yiddish are almost certainly included-and the field is so diverse that it cannot be contained within the bounds of one literary category. Each of the fifteen essays collected in Modern Jewish Literatures takes on the above question by describing a movement across boundaries-between languages, cultures, genres, or spaces. Works in Hebrew and Yiddish are amply represented, but works in English, French, German, Italian, Ladino, and Russian are also considered. Topics range from the poetry of the Israeli nationalist Natan Alterman to the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam; from turn-of-the-century Ottoman Jewish journalism to wire-recorded Holocaust testimonies; from the intellectual salons of late eighteenth-century Berlin to the shelves of a Jewish bookstore in twentieth-century Los Angeles. The literary world described in Modern Jewish Literatures is demarcated chronologically by the Enlightenment, the Haskalah, and the French Revolution, on one end, and the fiftieth anniversary of the State of Israel on the other. The particular terms of the encounter between a Jewish past and present for modern Jews has varied greatly, by continent, country, or village, by language, and by social standing, among other things. What unites the subjects of these studies is not a common ethnic, religious, or cultural history but rather a shared endeavor to use literary production and writing in general as the laboratory in which to explore and represent Jewish experience in the modern world.
Hebrew literature --- Jewish literature --- Jews in literature. --- Jews --- Judaism and literature. --- Judaism in literature. --- Yiddish literature --- Identity, Jewish --- Jewish identity --- Jewishness --- Jewish law --- Jewish nationalism --- Literature and Judaism --- Literature --- History and criticism. --- Identity. --- Ethnic identity --- Race identity --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Cultural Studies. --- Jewish Studies. --- Literature.
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