Title A house of words : Jewish writing, identity and memory / Norman Ravvin

Published Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [1997] ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (x, 191 pages) : illustrations Series McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series two McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series two Contents Introduction: this world and others -- pt. 1. What sort of home is the past? -- Forethought: building a house of words -- Eli Mandel's family architecture: building a house of words on the prairies -- Writing around the Holocaust: uncovering the ethical centre of Leonard Cohen's Beautiful losers -- Taking the victims' side: Mordecai Richler's response to the Holocaust in St. Urbain's horseman -- pt. 2. Strange presences -- Forethought: facing up to the past -- Strange presences on the family tree: the unacknowledged literary father in Philip Roth's The Prague orgy -- Philip Roth's literary ghost: rereading Anne Frank -- Ghost writing: Chava Rosenfarb's The tree of life pt. 3. Confronting apocalypse -- Forethought: on refusing to end -- Apocalypse stalled: the role of traditional archetype and symbol in Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts and The day of the locust -- An end to endings: Saul Bellow's anti-apocalyptic novel -- pt. 4. The collaborator -- Forethought -- Warring with shadows: the Holocaust and the academy -- Conclusion: in search of a multicultural tradition Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-187) and index Notes Print version record Subject American fiction -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. Canadian fiction -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism Canadian fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Periodicals Jews in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Jewish. Jews in literature Canadian fiction American fiction American fiction -- Jewish authors Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature Aufsatzsammlung Roman Letterkunde. Amerikaans. Joden. Holocaust. Judeus. Literatura norte americana (historia e critica) Kanada USA Juden. Englisch. Genre/Form Electronic books Periodicals Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780773566842 0773566848

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