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Exodus and Deuteronomy
Texts @ Contexts series
Av Athalya Brenner, Athalya Brenner m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
240 kr
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The Texts @ Contexts series gathers scholarly voices from diverse contexts and social locations to bring new or unfamiliar facets of biblical texts to light. Exodus and Deuteronomy focuses attention on two books of the Torah that share themes of journey and of diverse experiences in or upon the …
Affective Genealogies
Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism, and the "Jewish Question" After Auschwitz
Inbunden, 1997
703 kr
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Affective Genealogies is an incisive contribution to the current reassessment of postmodern culture and theory. Elizabeth J. Bellamy examines how the Holocaust and Jews have been represented in a wide range of French poststructuralist works. Central to Bellamy's study is her questioning of whether …
Sojourners
The Return of German Jews and the Question of Identity
Av John Borneman, Jeffrey M. Peck
Inbunden, 1995
826 kr
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"A firsthand confrontation with the inner fears and the outer realities of [German Jews] as they themselves reflect post-Shoah history and experience. This is not merely lived 'history,' it is 'history' with a living face."—Sander L. Gilman This absorbing book of interviews takes one to the heart …
Book of the Sphinx
Häftad, 2007
384 kr
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Sought, the Sphinx seems everywhere, whether the guardian of the pyramids on Egypt's Giza plateau or the beautiful man-eater with a deadly riddle, to be approached with awful caution. The Sphinx, that icon painted, sculpted, engraved, and exalted in poetry, fiction, and music, so impressed the …
Future of a Negation
Reflections on the Question of Genocide
Inbunden, 1998
475 kr
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The Future of a Negation is a crucial statement on the Holocaust-and on Holocaust denial-from Alain Finkielkraut, one of the most acclaimed and influential intellectuals in contemporary Europe.The book examines the Holocaust, its origins in modern European thought and politics, and recent …
Between Redemption and Doom
The Strains of German-Jewish Modernism
Häftad, 2008
253 kr
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Between Redemption and Doom is a revelatory exploration of the evolution of German-Jewish modernism. Through an examination of selected works in literature, theory, and film, Noah Isenberg investigates the ways in which Jewish identity was represented in German culture from the eve of the First …
Nation Without Art
Examining Modern Discourses on Jewish Art
Häftad, 2007
284 kr
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Looking through the history of art, a reader might conclude that Jews could not create art—and such an assumption, historically incorrect, would be no accident. As we see with disturbing clarity in this book, the discipline of art history—even the first scholarly studies of Jewish works of …
Jean-Paul Sartre and the Jewish Question
Anti-antisemitism and the Politics of the French Intellectual
Häftad, 2009
334 kr
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Jean-Paul Sartre and the Jewish Question examines the image of "the Jew" in Sartre's work to rethink not only his oeuvre but also the role of the intellectual in France and the politics and ethics of existentialism. It explores more broadly how French identity is defined through the abstraction and …
Exquisite Corpse
Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism's Parlor Game
Av Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, Davis Schneiderman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
651 kr
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In a parlor game played by the Surrealist group—the foremost avant-gardists of their time—participants made their marks on the quadrants of a folded sheet of paper: a many-eyed head, a distorted torso, hands fondling swollen breasts, snarling reptilian-dog feet descending from an egg-shaped …
Germany's Colonial Pasts
Av Eric Ames, Marcia Klotz m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
284 kr
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Germany's Colonial Pasts is a wide-ranging study of German colonialism and its legacies. Inspired by Susanne Zantop's landmark book Colonial Fantasies, and extending her analyses there, this volume offers new research by scholars from Europe, Africa, and the United States. It also commemorates …
Jews and Germany
From the "Judeo-German Symbiosis" to the Memory of Auschwitz
Inbunden, 1995
709 kr
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The Jews and Germany debunks a modern myth: that once upon a time there was a Judeo-German symbiosis, in which two cultures met and brought out the best in each other. Enzo Traverso argues that to the contrary, the attainments of Jews in the German-speaking world were due to the Jews aspiring to be …
Germany's Colonial Pasts
Av Eric Ames, Marcia Klotz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
534 kr
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Germany's Colonial Pasts is a wide-ranging study of German colonialism and its legacies. Inspired by Susanne Zantop's landmark book Colonial Fantasies, and extending her analyses there, this volume offers new research by scholars from Europe, Africa, and the United States. It also commemorates …
Imaginary Jew
Häftad, 1997
153 kr
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The Holocaust changed what it means to be a Jew, for Jew and non-Jew alike. Much of the discussion about this new meaning is a storm of contradictions. In The Imaginary Jew, Alain Finkielkraut describes with passion and acuity his own passage through that storm. Finkielkraut decodes the shifts in …
House of Joshua
Meditations on Family and Place
Häftad, 2002
203 kr
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Mindy Thompson Fullilove offers a series of meditations on her remarkable family and the places where they have lived. She lovingly recalls her parents: her father, a black leader of the labor movement, and her mother, a white woman whose boundless generosity was always in conflict with the racial …
Singer's Typewriter and Mine
Reflections on Jewish Culture
Av Ilan Stavans
Häftad, 2012
317 kr
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A cultural critic of extraordinary erudition, encyclopedic knowledge, and boundless curiosity, Ilan Stavans, an Ashkenazic Jew who grew up in Mexico, negotiates wildly varied topics as effortlessly and deftly as he manages the multiple perspectives of a dual national, religious, and ethnic …
Opera
Desire, Disease, Death
Av Michael Hutcheon, Linda Hutcheon
Häftad, 1999
227 kr
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"A fascinating interdisciplinary study of the interconnected subtexts of erotic attraction, illness, and death in several 19th- and 20th-century operatic texts...This is an extraordinary examination of how opera uses the singing body--gendered and sexual--to give voice to the suffering person. …
Man of Ashes
Av Salomon Isacovici, Juan Manuel Rodriguez
Häftad, 2001
353 kr
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In 1944 the Germans arrived and Isacovici, his family, and every other Jew from his town were pushed into cattle cars and taken ever closer to the soot and smoke of Auschwitz. He became a man of ashes.
Finitude's Score
Essays for the End of the Millennium
Häftad, 1998
317 kr
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Suspending the distinction between headline news and high theory, Avital Ronell examines the diverse figures of finitude in our modernity: war, guerrilla video, trauma TV, AIDS, music, divorce, sadism, electronic tagging, rumor. Her essays address such questions as, How do rumors kill? How has …
Budapest Diary
In Search of the Motherbook
Häftad, 1999
234 kr
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Can you forget the place you once called home? What does it take to make you recapture it? In this moving memoir, Susan Rubin Suleiman describes her returns to the city of her birth-where she speaks the language like a native but with an accent. Suleiman left Budapest in 1949 as a young child with …
Atlas of a Tropical Germany
Essays on Politics and Culture, 1990-1998
Häftad, 2000
219 kr
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"Germany long ago became part of us German Turks," Zafer Senocak observes. "Are we also a part of Germany?" Gathered here for the first time in English translation, these essays chart a new orientation for German life, culture, and politics beyond the Cold War and at the dawn of an unprecedented …
Contemporary American Novel in Context
Av Andrew Dix, Brian Jarvis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1641 kr
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This title offers a critical introduction to the contemporary American novel focusing on contexts, key texts, and criticism. Adventurous, engaging and politically urgent, contemporary American novels have come to enjoy a particular prestige and, through university courses, film adaptations and …
Victorian Poetry in Context
Av Rosie Miles
Inbunden, 2013
1641 kr
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Victorian Poetry in Context offers a lively and accessible introduction to the diverse range of poetry written in the Victorian period. Considering such issues as reform and protest, gender, science and belief this book sets out the social and cultural contexts for the poetry of a fast-changing …
Contemporary American Novel in Context
Av Andrew Dix, Brian Jarvis m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
433 kr
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This is a critical introduction to the contemporary American novel focusing on contexts, key texts and criticism. Adventurous, engaging and politically urgent, contemporary American novels have come to enjoy a particular prestige and, through university courses, film adaptations and cultural …
Victorian Poetry in Context
Av Rosie Miles
Häftad, 2013
449 kr
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Victorian Poetry in Context offers a lively and accessible introduction to the diverse range of poetry written in the Victorian period. Considering such issues as reform and protest, gender, science and belief this book sets out the social and cultural contexts for the poetry of a fast-changing …
Victorian Novel in Context
Av Grace Moore
E-bok, 2012
491 kr
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This book introduces students to the Victorian novel and its contexts, teaching strategies for reading and researching nineteenth-century literature. Combining close reading with background information and analysis it considers the Victorian novel as a product of the industrial age by focusing on …
Postcolonial Literatures in Context
E-bok, 2010
491 kr
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Postcolonial Literatures in Context is a clear, accessible and concise introduction to postcolonial literatures in English (and English translation) and their wider contexts. It begins by introducing key issues involved in the study of postcolonial literature including old and new diasporas, …
Contemporary American Novel in Context
Av Andrew Dix, Brian Jarvis m. fl.
E-bok, 2011
466 kr
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Assuming no prior knowledge and covering complex textual and contextual material in a clear, engaging way. this book is a critical introduction to the contemporary american novel focusing on contexts, key texts and criticism.
Victorian Novel in Context
Av Grace Moore
E-bok, 2012
502 kr
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This book introduces students to the Victorian novel and its contexts, teaching strategies for reading and researching nineteenth-century literature. Combining close reading with background information and analysis it considers the Victorian novel as a product of the industrial age by focusing on …
Children's Literature in Context
E-bok, 2011
491 kr
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Children''s Literature in Context is a clear, accessible and concise introduction to children''s literature and its wider contexts. It begins by introducing key issues involved in the study of children''s literature and its social, cultural and literary contexts. Close readings of commonly studied …
Medieval English Romance in Context
Av Gail Ashton
E-bok, 2010
466 kr
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Medieval Romance in Context is a clear, accessible and concise introduction to medieval English verse romantic texts and their wider contexts. It begins by introducing key issues and events that impacted on romance writing and its reception such as chivalric ideals, the Black Death, wars and …
