Norman Finkelstein

The Ritual of New Creation: Jewish Tradition and Contemporary Literature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Finkelstein examines a wide range of recent Jewish writing, including poetry, fiction, and literary criticism, in order to determine the changes such writing has undergone in its exposure to modern and postmodern conditions of culture. Featuring discussions of such figures as Gershom Scholem, Harold Bloom, George Steiner, Cynthia Ozick, and John Hollander, The Ritual of New Creation explores certain themes that recur in modern Jewish literature: the relation of the sacred to the secular in Jewish writing; the role of loss and exile; "wandering meaning" and textual transformation. This is a book for all readers interested in modern Jewish literature, but especially for readers concerned with literary theory, the relations of text and commentary, and the fate of literary traditions in the contemporary and postmodern cultural milieu.

Produktdetails

• Suny Modern Jewish Literature
• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: September 1992
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9780791410899
• ISBN-10: 0791410897
• Artikelnr.: 54152605

Autorenporträt

Norman Finkelstein is Professor of English at Xavier University. He is the author of The Utopian Moment in Contemporary American Poetry.