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
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Summary: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 captures through the phrase "never better." With this rhetorical homage toward the double-voiced utterances of Sholem Aleichem, Udel gestures at these characters' insouciant proclamation that things had never been better, and their rueful, even despairing admission that things would probably never ge.
Physical Description:1 online resource (266 pages).
ISBN:9780472121731

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