Finkelstein Not One of Them in Place

Modern Poetry and Jewish American Identity
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-9054-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 206 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture

Explores the ways in which Jewish American poetry engages persistent questions of modern Jewish identity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Finkelstein, Norman

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments Preface Introduction
The Traditions of Jewish American Poetry 1.Tradition and Modernity: Charles Reznikoff and the Test of (Jewish) Poetry 2.Jewish American Modernism and the Problem of Identity
With Special Reference to the Work of Louis Zukofsky 3.Allen Grossman's Theophoric Poetics 4.Between Poland and Sumer: The Ethnopoetics of Jerome Rothenberg and Armand Schwerner 5.Objectivist Continuities: Harvey Shapiro, Michael Heller, Hugh Seidman Afterword
Saying Kaddish: Holiness, Death, and the Jewish Difference in Poetry Works Cited Index

Über Autor(innen)

Norman Finkelstein is Professor of English at Xavier University. His previous works include two volumes of poetry, Restless Messengers and Track, and The Ritual of New Creation: Jewish Tradition and Contemporary Literature, also published by SUNY Press.