Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-187) and index
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
A house of words
Jewish writing, identity and memory
Published:
c1997
Publisher:
McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal [Que.]
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...
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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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-187) and index. - Description based on print version record
Introduction: this world and otherspt. 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 apocalypseForethought: 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.