Defenses of the imagination : Jewish writers and modern historical crisis / Robert Alter

Publication | Library Call Number: PN842 .A4 1977

Format: Book
Author/Creator: Alter, Robert.
Published: Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America, 1977
Includes bibliographical references
Language: English
Edition: 1st ed

Physical Description: xv, 262 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. The modern context: Defenses of the imagination
2. Portraits: Osip Mandelstam: the poet as witness
Walter Benjamin: the aura of the past
Gershom Scholem: history and the abyss
Lea Goldberg: poetry in dark times
Uri Zvi Greenberg: a poet of the Holocaust
Charles Reznikoff: between present and past
Eliot, Lawrence, and the Jews: two versions of Europe
3. Fiction and historical crisis: Jewish humor and the domestication of myth
A novel of the post-tragic world
Agnon's Mediterranean fable
Shtetl and revolution
Fiction in a state of siege
Updike, Malamud, and the fire this time
A problem of horizons.
ISBN: 0827600976
9780827600973
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Jewish authors.
Jews in literature.
Judaism and literature.
Hebrew literature, Modern--History and criticism.
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