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1 online resource |
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Michigan studies in comparative Jewish cultures |
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Michigan studies in comparative Jewish cultures.
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| Contents |
In life, but not of it: the modernist picaresque -- Sharks and marks: the swindles and seductions of modernity -- Living serially: Neoteny and the polit -- The polit at the waning of Haskalah : demobilized soldiers, demobilized Jews -- Steel and iron: a study in Maskilic manhood -- Spillage and shards: the polit between the wars -- The polit under tsars and stripes -- You must to dare! Afterlives of the polit |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Marginality, Social, in literature.
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Yiddish literature -- History and criticism
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Jews in literature.
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Outsiders in literature.
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Picaresque literature -- Themes, motives.
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Strangers in literature.
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Noncitizens in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish
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Strangers in literature
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Noncitizens in literature
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Jews in literature
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Marginality, Social, in literature
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Outsiders in literature
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Picaresque literature -- Themes, motives
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Yiddish literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2015046488 |
| ISBN |
9780472121731 |
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0472121731 |
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