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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Alter, Robert. Defenses of the imagination. Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America, 1977 (OCoLC)644287076 |
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| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| 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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