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Glenda Abramson's informative introduction sets the scene for a powerful literary collection, the definitive anthology of a vibrant modern genre.
Author : Glenda Abramson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 22,28 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Short stories, Hebrew
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Glenda Abramson's informative introduction sets the scene for a powerful literary collection, the definitive anthology of a vibrant modern genre.
Author : Atwood Oates Abramson
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Page : pages
File Size : 13,53 MB
Release : 1996-09-01
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ISBN : 9780195213126
Author : Glenda Abramson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 11,11 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
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Glenda Abramson's informative introduction sets the scene for a powerful literary collection, the definitive anthology of a vibrant modern genre.
Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 25,27 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0195110196
"The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories" takes readers from the mid-1800s to the present, encompassing a full spectrum of Jewish writing around the world.
Author : Tod Linafelt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 32,74 MB
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199910472
The Hebrew Bible, or Christian Old Testament, contains some of the finest literature that we have. This biblical literature has a place not only in the synagogue or the church but also among the classics of world literature. The stories of Jacob and David, for instance, present the earliest surviving examples of literary characters whose development the reader follows over the length of a lifetime. Elsewhere, as in the books of Esther or Ruth, readers find a snapshot of a particular, fraught moment that will define the character. The Hebrew Bible also provides quite a few high points of lyric poetry, from the praise and lament of the Psalms to the double entendres in the love of poetry of the Song of Songs. In short, the Bible can be celebrated not only as religious literature but, quite simply, as literature. This book offers a thorough and lively introduction to the Bible's two primary literary modes, narrative and poetry, foregrounding the nuances of plot, character, metaphor, structure and design, and intertextual allusions. Tod Linafelt thus gives readers the tools to fully experience and appreciate the Old Testament's literary achievement. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Mary Hoffman
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,25 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780789485045
Seven stories from the Old Testament, such as Noah's Ark and Joseph and his Rainbow Coat, are retold for the very young. Includes "Who's Who in the Bible Stories."
Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 32,75 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0199744394
Joyce Carol Oates has performed a full review of her acclaimed 1992 anthology, The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, and in this second edition embraces those authors who have come to define turn-of-the-century American literature. Jhumpa Lahiri, Junot Diaz, Richard Ford, and David Foster Wallace are just a few of the authors whose stories are now represented. Each story is accompanied by a brief introduction, and there is also a fascinating introductory essay by Joyce Carol Oates that explains why these stories form the foundation of the American literary canon, and the trends and innovations that have taken place in the last twenty years.
Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,77 MB
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0190076992
The story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual and transnational in character, spanning the globe as well as the centuries. In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to Jewish literature from 1492 to the present, cultural historian Ilan Stavans focuses on its multilingual and transnational nature. Stavans presents a wide range of traditions within Jewish literature and the variety of writers who made those traditions possible. Represented are writers as dissimilar as Luis de Carvajal the Younger, Franz Kafka, Bruno Schulz, Isaac Babel, Anzia Yezierska, Elias Canetti, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Irving Howe, Clarice Lispector, Susan Sontag, Philip Roth, Grace Paley, Amos Oz, Moacyr Scliar, and David Grossman. The story of Jewish literature spans the globe as well as the centuries, from the marrano poets and memorialists of medieval Spain, to the sprawling Yiddish writing in Ashkenaz (the "Pale of Settlement' in Eastern Europe), to the probing narratives of Jewish immigrants to the United States and other parts of the New World. It also examines the accounts of horror during the Holocaust, the work of Israeli authors since the creation of the Jewish State in 1948, and the "ingathering" of Jewish works in Brazil, Bulgaria, Argentina, and South Africa at the end of the twentieth century. This kaleidoscopic introduction to Jewish literature presents its subject matter as constantly changing and adapting.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,41 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Short stories, Hebrew
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Page : pages
File Size : 30,30 MB
Release : 1965
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