After the tradition : essays on modern Jewish writing.

Author/creator Alter, Robert
Format Book
Edition[1st ed.].
Publication InfoNew York : Dutton, 1969.
Description256 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects
Hebrew literature, Modern--History and criticism.
American literature--Jewish authors. --History and criticism.
Judaism and literature--United States. --History.
Jews--United States. --Intellectual life.
Jews in literature.
United States--Civilization. --Jewish influences.

Contents 1. Varieties of Jewish experience: Jewish dreams and nightmares -- Sentimentalizing the Jews -- The apocalyptic temper -- Sabbatai Zevi and the Jewish imagination -- Hebrew literature and the paradox of survival -- 2. Four writers: Saul Bellow: a dissent from modernism -- Bernard Malamud: Jewishness as a metaphor -- S.Y. Agnon: the alphabet of holiness -- Elie Wiesel: between hangman and victim -- 3. The Israeli scene: Confronting the Holocaust -- The Israeli novel: "The two generations" (1962) ; "Language and realism" (1966) -- The days of Ziklag: in search of a cultural past -- The kidnapping of Bialik and Tchernichovsky -- Poetry in Israel.
Other formsAlso issued online.
Issued in other formOnline version: Alter, Robert. After the tradition. [1st ed.] New York, Dutton, 1969
LCCN 69012601

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Joyner General Stacks PJ5017 .A4 1969 ✔ Available Place Hold