Hana Wirth-Nesher
Cambridge University Press
e druk, 1996
9780521450324
New Essays on Call It Sleep
Specificaties
Gebonden, 208 blz.
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Engels
Cambridge University Press |
e druk, 1996
ISBN13: 9780521450324
Rubricering
Onderdeel van serie
The American Novel
Verwachte levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen
Samenvatting
Henry Roth's Call It Sleep, praised when it first appeared in the 1930s, neglected for decades and reissued to wide acclaim in the 1960s, has been hailed, finally, as the finest Jewish-American novel of the first half of the century and one of the richest modernist novels to appear in America. The introduction by Hana Wirth-Nesher locates the novel in its cultural context and in terms of contemporary debates about ethnic literature, minority writing, and the problem of representativeness. Thus, the volume sets out to consider Roth's hybrid status - as an American writer, a Jewish writer, and a European modernist.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9780521450324
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Gebonden
Aantal pagina's:208
Uitgever:Cambridge University Press
Serie:The American Novel
Inhoudsopgave
1. Introduction Hana Wirth-Nesher; 2. The many myths of Henry Roth Leslie Fielder; 3. Shifting urbanscape: Roth's 'private' New York Mario Materassi; 4. The classic of disinheritance Ruth Wisse; 5. Henry Roth in Nighttown, or, containing Ulysses Brian McHale; 6. Roth's Call It Sleep: modernism on the lower East Side Karen Lawrence; 7. 'A world somewhere, somewhere else.' Language, nostalgic mournfulness, and urban immigrant family romance in Call It Sleep Werner Sollors.