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City Scriptures : Modern Jewish Writing / Murray Baumgarten.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©1982Edition: Reprint 2013Description: 1 online resource (185 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674282551
  • 9780674282568
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809/.8924
LOC classification:
  • PS153.J4
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1. An Urban Phenomenon -- 2. Dual Allegiances -- 3. Clothing and Character -- 4. Abishag: The Body's Song -- 5. Community and Modernity: Sholom Aleichem -- 6. Folk Speech and Holy Tongue: Agnon and Borges -- 7. Language Rules -- 8. City Premises -- Notes -- Index
Summary: This richly suggestive book examines the common bonds of thought and shared manner of expression that unite Jewish writers working in America, Eastern Europe, and Israel. Murray Baumgarten shows how Jewish traditions are reflected in the themes and narrative style of a diverse group of writers, including Saul Bellow, Henry Roth, Sholom Aleichen, Isaac Babel, and S.Y. Agnon. Baumgarten finds in these writers a distinctive and symbolic use of the urban scene arid style of life—whether the city is Brooklyn, Chicago, Vienna, Warsaw, Odessa, or Jerusalem. He examines the pariah stance, and the different kinds of tension between freedom from communal ties and the pull of traditional culture. He demonstrates how Yiddish can flavor and inflect the syntax, how scripture can permeate the thinking and narrative devices, in writers of various nationalities.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674282568

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1. An Urban Phenomenon -- 2. Dual Allegiances -- 3. Clothing and Character -- 4. Abishag: The Body's Song -- 5. Community and Modernity: Sholom Aleichem -- 6. Folk Speech and Holy Tongue: Agnon and Borges -- 7. Language Rules -- 8. City Premises -- Notes -- Index

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This richly suggestive book examines the common bonds of thought and shared manner of expression that unite Jewish writers working in America, Eastern Europe, and Israel. Murray Baumgarten shows how Jewish traditions are reflected in the themes and narrative style of a diverse group of writers, including Saul Bellow, Henry Roth, Sholom Aleichen, Isaac Babel, and S.Y. Agnon. Baumgarten finds in these writers a distinctive and symbolic use of the urban scene arid style of life—whether the city is Brooklyn, Chicago, Vienna, Warsaw, Odessa, or Jerusalem. He examines the pariah stance, and the different kinds of tension between freedom from communal ties and the pull of traditional culture. He demonstrates how Yiddish can flavor and inflect the syntax, how scripture can permeate the thinking and narrative devices, in writers of various nationalities.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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