Old Truths and New Clichés : : Essays by Isaac Bashevis Singer / / Isaac Bashevis Singer; ed. by David Stromberg.
From the Nobel Prize–winning writer, a new collection of literary and personal essaysOld Truths and New Clichés collects eighteen essays—most of them previously unpublished in English—by Isaac Bashevis Singer on topics that were central to his artistic vision throughout an astonishing and prolific l...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 3 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Writers Don’t Write for the Drawer: An Introduction to the Essays of Isaac Bashevis Singer
- The Literary Arts
- The Satan of Our Time
- Journalism and Literature
- Why Literary Censorship Is Harmful
- Who Needs Literature?
- Old Truths and New Clichés
- Storytelling and Literature
- Literature for Children and Adults
- Yiddish and Jewish LIFE
- The Kabbalah and Modern Times
- The Ten Commandments and Modern Critics
- The Spirit of Judaism
- Yiddish, the Language of Exile
- Yiddish Theater Lives, Despite the Past
- Yiddish and Jewishness
- Personal Writings and Philosophy
- A Trip to the Circus
- Why I Write As I Do: The Philosophy and Definition of a Jewish Writer
- A Personal Concept of Religion
- A Story about a Collection of Stories
- The Making of a First Book
- To the True Protester
- Singer the Editor: An Afterword on the Editorial Process
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index