Never better! : the modern Jewish picaresque /

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It was only when Jewish writers gave up on the lofty Enlightenment ideals of progress and improvement that the Yiddish novel could decisively enter modernity. Animating their fictions were a set of unheroic heroes who struck a precarious balance between sanguinity and irony that author Miriam Udel c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Udel, Miriam (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
Colección:Michigan studies in comparative Jewish cultures.
Temas:
Marginality, Social, in literature.
Yiddish literature > History and criticism.
Jews in literature.
Outsiders in literature.
Picaresque literature > Themes, motives.
Strangers in literature.
Noncitizens in literature.
Littérature yiddish > Histoire et critique.
Juifs dans la littérature.
Étrangers dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German
LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish
Yiddish literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • In life, but not of it: the modernist picaresque
  • Sharks and marks: the swindles and seductions of modernity
  • Living serially: Neoteny and the polit
  • The polit at the waning of Haskalah : demobilized soldiers, demobilized Jews
  • Steel and iron: a study in Maskilic manhood
  • Spillage and shards: the polit between the wars
  • The polit under tsars and stripes
  • You must to dare! Afterlives of the polit.

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