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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Udel, Miriam (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Yiddish literature.
Picaresque literature > Themes, motives.
Outsiders in literature.
Marginality, Social, in literature.
Jews in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German
Étrangers dans la litterature.
Juifs dans la litterature.
Litterature yiddish > Histoire et critique.
Noncitizens in literature.
Strangers in literature.
Yiddish literature > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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