Title Not one of them in place : modern poetry and Jewish American identity / Norman Finkelstein

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 194 pages) Series SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture Contents Front Matter -- Front Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table Of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- The Traditions of Jewish American Poetry -- Tradition and Modernity: Charles Reznikoff and theTest of jewish) Poetry -- Jewish American Modernism and the Problem of Identity -- Allen Grossman's Theophoric Poetics -- Between Poland and Sumer:The Ethnopoetics of Jerome Rothenberg and Armand Schwerner -- Objectivist Continuities: Harvey Shapiro, Michael Heller, Hugh Seidman -- Saying Kaddish: Holiness, Death, and the Jewish Difference in Poetry -- Back Matter Works Cited -- Index -- Back Cover Summary In this analysis of how Jewish thought and cultural identity have been articulated in modern American poetry, the author offers a few clues but does not obsess about what is distinctive about Jewish poetry. Nor does he pursue gender issues in its feminist verse. Rather, Finkelstein (English, Xavier U.) applies a Symbolist- Objectivist metric for close reading of the Jewish-American canon including Allen Ginsberg, Charles Reznikoff, Louis Zukofsky, and Harvey Shapiro. This study builds upon the author-poet's The Ritual of New Creation: Jewish Tradition and Contemporary Literature (SUNY, 1992) and related works. c. Book News Inc Analysis "Multi-User" Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-189) and index Notes English Print version record Koret Jewish Book Awards (nominated), 2001 Subject Jews in literature. Group identity in literature. Judaism and literature -- United States Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism American poetry -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry. American poetry American poetry -- Jewish authors Group identity in literature Jews in literature Jews -- Intellectual life Judaism and literature United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 00054735 ISBN 9780791490549 0791490548 0791449831 9780791449837 9780791449844 079144984X

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