The hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer /
Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer stands virtually alone among prominent writers for being more widely known through translations of his work than through the original texts. Yet readers and critics of the Yiddish originals have long pointed out that the English versions are generally...
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| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2001
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Literary modernism series.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. The Yiddish language and the Yiddish cultural experience in Bashevis's writings. A canticle for Isaac: a Kaddish for Bashevis / Irving Saposnik ; Bashevis/Singer and the Jewish pope / Joseph Sherman ; History, messianism, and apocalypse in Bashevis's work / Avrom Noversztern ; Sociolinguistic views of Isaac Bashevis Singer / Mark L. Louden
- pt. 2. Thematic approaches to the study of Bashevis's fiction. Bilom in Bashevis's Der knekht (The slave): A khaye hot oykh a neshome (An animal also has a soul) / Leonard Prager ; Art and religion in Der bal-tshuve (The penitent) / Alan Astro ; "Death is the only messiah": three supernatural stories by Yitskhok Bashevis / Jan Schwarz
- pt. 3. Bashevis's interface with other times and cultures. Bashevis's interactions with the Mayse-bukh (Book of tales) / Astrid Starck-Adler
- The role of Polish language and literature in Bashevis's fiction / Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska
- pt. 4. Interpretations of Bashevis's autobiographical writings. Revealing Bashevis's earliest autobiographical novel, Varshe 1914-1918 (Warsaw 1914-1918) / Nathan Cohen ; Folk and folklore in the work of Bashevis / Itzik Gottesman ; Bashevis at Forverts / Janet Hadda
- pt. 5. Bashevis's untranslated "gangster" novel: Yarme un keyle. A background note on the translation of Yarme un keyle / Joseph Sherman ; Yarme and Keyle: chapter 2 / Isaac Bashevis Singer, trnaslated by Joseph Sherman
- Appendix. Bashevis Singer as a regionalist of Lublin province: a note / Seth L. Wolitz and Joseph Sherman.
