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.
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.
