The Hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer /

The Hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer / / ed. by Seth L. Wolitz.

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Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer stands virtually alone among prominent writers for being more widely known through translations of his work than through the original texts. Yet readers and critics of the Yiddish originals have long pointed out that the English versions are generally...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Adamczyk-Garbowska, Monika,
Astro, Alan,
Cohen, Nathan,
Gottesman, Itzik,
Hadda, Janet,
Louden, Mark L.,
Noversztern, Avrom,
Prager, Leonard,
Saposnik, Irving,
Sherman, Joseph,
Singer, Isaac Bashevis,
Starck-Adler, Astrid,
Wolitz, Seth L.,
HerausgeberIn:
Wolitz, Seth L.,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2002
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Literary Modernism
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • I. THE YIDDISH LANGUAGE AND THE YIDDISH CULTURAL EXPERIENCE IN BASHEVIS’S WRITINGS
  • 1 A Canticle for Isaac: A Kaddish for Bashevis
  • 2 Bashevis/Singer and the Jewish Pope
  • 3 History, Messianism, and Apocalypse in Bashevis’s Work
  • 4 Sociolinguistic Views of Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • II. THEMATIC APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF BASHEVIS’S FICTION
  • 5 Bilom in Bashevis’s Der knekht (The Slave)
  • 6 Art and Religion in Der bal-tshuve (The Penitent)
  • 7 ‘‘Death Is the Only Messiah’’
  • III. BASHEVIS’S INTERFACE WITH OTHER TIMES AND CULTURES
  • 8 Bashevis’s Interactions with the Mayse-bukh (Book of Tales)
  • 9 The Role of Polish Language and Literature in Bashevis’s Fiction
  • IV. INTERPRETATIONS OF BASHEVIS’S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS
  • 10 Revealing Bashevis’s Earliest Autobiographical Novel, Varshe 1914–1918 (Warsaw 1914–1918)
  • 11 Folk and Folklore in the Work of Bashevis
  • 12 Bashevis at Forverts
  • V. BASHEVIS’S UNTRANSLATED ‘‘GANGSTER’’ NOVEL: YARME UN KEYLE
  • 13 A Background Note on the Translation of Yarme un keyle
  • 14 Yarme and Keyle: Chapter 2
  • Appendix. Bashevis Singer as a Regionalist of Lublin Province: A Note
  • Glossary
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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