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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Pinsker, Sanford. Schlemiel as metaphor. Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press [1971] (OCoLC)586056223 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Sanford Pinsker |
| ISBN: | 0809304805 9780809304806 |
| OCLC Number: | 137386 |
| Description: | xii, 172 p. 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Covering some bets beforehand -- The schlemiel's family tree -- "If I were a rich man...", mendele and sholom aleichem -- The schlemiel on Main Street -- The isolated schlemiels of Isaac Bashevis Singer -- The schlemiel as moral bungler: Bernard Malamud's ironic heroes -- The psychological schlemiels of Saul Bellow -- Leaving things open-ended. |
| Series Title: | Crosscurrents/ modern critiques |
| Responsibility: | With a pref. by Harry T. Moore. |
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- Schlemiels in literature.
- Yiddish fiction -- History and criticism.
- American fiction -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.
- Judaism and literature -- United States -- History.
- Jews -- United States -- Intellectual life.
- Jews in literature.
- Metaphor.
- Literatur.
- Roman.
- Schlemihl.
- Juden.
- USA.

