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050 00 PN842 |b.A4 1977
100 1  Alter, Robert.
245 10 Defenses of the imagination : |bJewish writers and modern historical crisis / |cRobert Alter.
250    First edition.
264  1 Philadelphia : |bJewish Publication Society of America, |c1977.
300    xv, 262 pages ; |c24 cm
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
504    Includes bibliographical references.
505 00  |g1. |tModern context: |tDefenses of the imagination -- |g2. |tPortraits: |tOsip Mandelstam: the poet as witness -- |tWalter Benjamin: the aura of the past -- |tGershom Scholem: history and the abyss -- |tLea Goldberg: poetry in dark times -- |tUri Zvi Greenberg: a poet of the Holocaust -- |tCharles Reznikoff: between present and past -- |tEliot, Lawrence, and the Jews: two versions of Europe -- |g3. |tFiction and historical crisis: |tJewish humor and the domestication of myth -- |tA novel of the post-tragic world -- |tAgnon's Mediterranean fable -- |tShtetl and revolution -- |tFiction in a state of siege -- |tUpdike, Malamud, and the fire this time -- |tA problem of horizons.
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
650  0 Jewish authors.
650  0 Jews in literature.
650  0 Judaism and literature.
650  0 Hebrew literature, Modern |xHistory and criticism.
994    C0 |bLHM
852 0   |bstacks |hPN842 |i.A4 1977
852 0   |bscstacks |hPN842 |i.A4 1977 |tc.2