Looks at Dickens' perception of the city of London and how it relates to his writings.

Rereading the City/Rereading Dickens: Representation, the Novel, and Urban Realism (Ams Studies in the Nineteenth Century)

Literature & Fiction

Sicher, Efraim

History & Criticism

Ams Pr Inc

We inevitably think of Dickens as the London novelist, but rarely do we consider what we mean when we refer to Dickens’s urban realism.  In this study of Dickens’s representation of the city, Efraim Sicher places Dickens’s major novels within Victorian discourses about the city and rereads the fictional world Dickens portrayed as a dialogical response to those debates. Dickens’s city emerges as surprisingly grim and bleak, and we must ask whether the regeneration Dickens invests in several of his protagonists is a resistance to the corrupt city in its romantic trope, or whether salvation can be found in the city itself.  Rereading the City/Rereading Dickens has been acclaimed as an important scholarly achievement that deftly crosses the disciplinary boundaries between literature and history, reexamining modes of realism and giving a new understanding of the modernity of London, well before Baudelaire’s flâneur sauntered along Paris boulevards. Dickens is seen, moreover, in a wider perspective, with fascinating comparisons with Poe and Hugo.  This new edition has been updated to take account of the latest scholarship and has been completely revised.

Rereading the City/Rereading Dickens: Representation, the Novel, and Urban Realism (AMS Studies in the Nineteenth Century)

A M S Press, Incorporated

The Holocaust Novel (Genres in Context)

The first comprehensive study of Holocaust literature as a major postwar literary genre, The Holocaust Novel provides an ideal student guide to the powerful and moving works written in response to this historical tragedy. This student-friendly volume answers a dire need for readers to understand a genre in which boundaries and often blurred between history, fiction, autobiography, and memoir. Other essential features for students here include an annotated bibliography, chronology, and further reading list. Major texts discussed include such widely taught works as Night, Maus, The Shawl, Schindler's List, Sophie's Choice, White Noise, and Time's Arrow.

Biographies & Memoirs

Routledge

The first comprehensive study of Holocaust literature as a major postwar literary genre, The Holocaust Novel provides an ideal student guide to the powerful and moving works written in response to this historical tragedy. This student-friendly volume answers a dire need for readers to understand a genre in which boundaries and often blurred between history, fiction, autobiography, and memoir. Other essential features for students here include an annotated bibliography, chronology, and further reading list. Major texts discussed include such widely taught works as Night, Maus, The Shawl, Schindler's List, Sophie's Choice, White Noise, and Time's Arrow.

This study is an innovative and controversial study of how the best-known Jews writing in Russian in early Soviet period attempted to resolve the conflict between their cultural identity and their place in Revolutionary Russia. Babel, Mandelstam, Pasternak and Ehrenburg struggled to form creative selves out of the contradictions of origins, outlook and social or ideological pressures. Comparison of literary texts and the visual arts reveals unexpected correspondences in the response to political and cultural change. Sicher provides a fascinating view of intercultural and intertextual connections and contrasts.

Jews in Russian Literature after the October Revolution: Writers and Artists between Hope and Apostasy (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature)

Cambridge University Press

Postmodern Love in the Contemporary Jewish Imagination (Routledge Jewish Studies Series)

Offering a radical critique of contemporary Israeli and diaspora fiction by major writers of the generation after Amos Oz and Philip Roth, this book asks searching questions about identity formation in Jewish spaces in the twenty-first century and posits global, transnational identities instead of the bipolar Israel/diaspora model. 
The chapters put into conversation major authors such as Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, Michael Chabon, and Nathan Englander with their Israeli counterparts Zeruya Shalev, Eshkol Nevo, and Etgar Keret and shows that they share common themes and concerns. Read through a postmodern lens, their preoccupation with failed marriage and failed ideals brings to the fore the crises of home, nation, historical destiny, and collective memory in contemporary secular Jewish culture. 
At times provocative, at others iconoclastic, this innovative study must be read by anyone concerned with Jewish culture and identity today, whether scholars, students, or the general reader.

Reference

Isaak Babel' (1894-1940) is arguably one of the greatest modern short story writers of the early twentieth century. Yet his life and work are shrouded in the mystery of who Babel' was―an Odessa Jew who wrote in Russian, who came from one of the most vibrant centers of east European Jewish culture, and who all his life loved Yiddish and the stories of Sholom Aleichem This is the first book in English to study the intertextuality of Babel'’s work. It looks at Babel'’s cultural identity as a case study in the contradictions and tensions of literary influence, personal loyalties, and ideological constraint. The complex and often ambivalent relations between the two cultures inevitably raise controversial issues that touch on the reception of Babel' and other Jewish intellectuals in Russian literature, as well as the “Jewishness” of their work.

Babel' in Context: A Study in Cultural Identity (Borderlines: Russian and East European-Jewish Studies)

Arts & Literature

Academic Studies Press

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Rereading the City/Rereading Dickens: Representation, the Novel, and Urban Realism (Ams Studies in the Nineteenth Century)

Rereading the City/Rereading Dickens: Representation, the Novel, and Urban Realism (AMS Studies in the Nineteenth Century)

The Holocaust Novel (Genres in Context)

The Holocaust Novel (Genres in Context)

Jews in Russian Literature after the October Revolution: Writers and Artists between Hope and Apostasy (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature)

Jews in Russian Literature after the October Revolution: Writers and Artists between Hope and Apostasy (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature)

Postmodern Love in the Contemporary Jewish Imagination (Routledge Jewish Studies Series)

Postmodern Love in the Contemporary Jewish Imagination (Routledge Jewish Studies Series)

Babel' in Context: A Study in Cultural Identity (Borderlines: Russian and East European-Jewish Studies)