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Criticism of Holocaust literature is an emerging field of inquiry, and as might be expected, the most innovative work has been concentrated on the vanguard of European and Israeli Holocaust literature. Now that American fiction has amassed an impressive and provocative Holocaust canon, the time is propitious for its evaluation. Witness Through the Imagination presents a critical reading of themes and stylistic strategies of major American Holocaust fiction to determine its capacity to render the prelude, progress, and aftermath of the Holocaust. The unifying critical approach is the textual explication of themes and literary method, occasional comparative references to international Holocaust literature, and a discussion of extra-literary Holocaust sources that have influenced the creative writers' treatment of the Holocaust universe.

American fiction --- Jewish authors --- History and criticism. --- American fiction Jewish authors --- History and criticism --- The Holocaust

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This new volume in the JPS Guides series is a fiction reader's dream: a guide to 125 remarkable works of fiction. The selection includes a wide range of classic American Jewish novels and story collections, from 1867 to the present, selected by the author in consultation with a panel of literary scholars and book industry professionals. Roth, Mailer, Kellerman, Chabon, Ozick, Heller, and dozens of other celebrated writers are here, with their most notable works. Each entry includes a book summary, with historical context and background on the author. Suggestions for further reading point to ot

American fiction --- American literature --- Jewish authors --- History and criticism. --- American fiction Jewish authors --- History and criticism

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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.

American fiction --- Canadian fiction --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. --- Group identity in literature. --- Memory in literature. --- Jews in literature. --- Jewish authors --- History and criticism. --- North America --- Intellectual life. --- Turtle Island (Continent) --- American fiction Jewish authors --- History and criticism

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American fiction --- Covenants --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. --- Jews in literature. --- Jews --- Judaism and literature --- Jewish authors --- History and criticism. --- Religious aspects --- Judaism. --- Intellectual life. --- History --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature --- Jews in literature --- Agreements --- American literature --- Jewish authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Judaism --- Intellectual life --- Covenants (Jewish theology) --- American fiction Jewish authors

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"This study draws together for the first time the major authors, Edna O'Brien and Philip Roth, by tracing their long literary friendship and the striking parallels in their work and reception. In doing so, it considers them in both a national and a transnational context, and provides a novel means of understanding the interplay between Irish and Jewish-American literature"--

English fiction --- American fiction --- Irish authors --- History and criticism --- Jewish authors --- Roth, Philip --- O'Brien, Edna --- O’Brien, Edna --- Roth, Philip Milton --- Rʺut, Bhilip --- Рот, Филип --- Rot, Filip --- רות, פיליפ --- ロス, フィリップ --- Criticism and interpretation. --- American fiction Jewish authors --- History and criticism. --- O'Brien, Edna. --- Roth, Philip.