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Defenses of the imagination : Jewish writers and modern historical crisis

Author: Robert Alter
Publisher: Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America, 1977.
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Robert Alter
ISBN: 0827600976 : 9780827600973
OCLC Number: 3736689
Description: xv, 262 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. The modern context: Defenses of the imagination -- 2. Portraits: Osip Mandelstam: the poet as witness -- Walter Benjamin: the aura of the past -- Gershom Scholem: history and the abyss -- Lea Goldberg: poetry in dark times -- Uri Zvi Greenberg: a poet of the Holocaust -- Charles Reznikoff: between present and past -- Eliot, Lawrence, and the Jews: two versions of Europe -- 3. Fiction and historical crisis: Jewish humor and the domestication of myth -- A novel of the post-tragic world -- Agnon's Mediterranean fable -- Shtetl and revolution -- Fiction ina state of siege -- Updike, Malamud, and the fire this time -- A problem of horizons.
Responsibility: Robert Alter.

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