{"title":"Literary Criticism","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrowse our Literary Criticism collection. Best Price.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"resurrecting-hebrew-by-ilan-stavans","title":"Resurrecting Hebrew by Ilan Stavans","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHere is the stirring story of how Hebrew was rescued from the fate of a dead language to become the living tongue of a modern nation. Ilan Stavans’s quest begins with a dream featuring a beautiful woman speaking an unknown language. When the language turns out to be Hebrew, a friend diagnoses “language withdrawal,” and Stavans sets out in search of his own forgotten Hebrew as well as the man who helped revive the language at the end of the nineteenth century, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe search for Ben-Yehuda, who raised his eldest son in linguistic isolation–not even allowing him to hear the songs of birds–so that he would be “the first Hebrew-speaking child,” becomes a journey full of paradox. It was Orthodox anti-Zionists who had Ben-Yehuda arrested for sedition, and, although Ben-Yehuda was devoted to Jewish life in Palestine, it was in Manhattan that he worked on his great dictionary of the Hebrew language.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e","brand":"RNDM","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43220477607998,"sku":"tqa1787285532229","price":11.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/0075\/8846\/files\/resurrecting-hebrew-by-ilan-stavans_1.jpg?v=1787285537"},{"product_id":"life-in-culture-selected-letters-of-lionel-trilling-by-lionel-trilling","title":"Life in Culture: Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling by Lionel Trilling","description":"\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA great critic’s quarrels with himself and others, as revealed in his correspondence\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the mid-twentieth century, Lionel Trilling was America’s most respected literary critic. His powerful and subtle essays inspired readers to think about how literature shapes our politics, our culture, and our selves. His 1950 collection, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Liberal Imagination\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, sold more than 100,000 copies, epitomizing a time that has been called the age of criticism.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTo his New York intellectual peers, Trilling could seem reserved and circumspect. But in his selected letters, Trilling is revealed in all his variousness and complexity. We witness his ardent courtship of Diana Trilling, who would become an eminent intellectual in her own right; his alternately affectionate and contentious rapport with former students such as Allen Ginsberg and Norman Podhoretz; the complicated politics of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePartisan Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e and other fabled magazines of the period; and Trilling’s relationships with other leading writers of the period, including Saul Bellow, Edmund Wilson, and Norman Mailer.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLife in Culture\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, edited by Adam Kirsch, Trilling’s letters add up to an intimate portrait of a great critic, and of America’s intellectual journey from the political passions of the 1930s to the cultural conflicts of the 1960s and beyond.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"YBC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43220477640766,"sku":"csw1787285533135","price":15.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/0075\/8846\/files\/life-in-culture-selected-letters-of-lionel-trilling-by-lionel-trilling_1.jpg?v=1787285538"},{"product_id":"rosenfelds-lives-fame-oblivion-and-the-furies-of-writing-by-steven-j-zipperstein","title":"Rosenfeld's Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing by Steven J. 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Zipperstein seeks to reclaim Rosenfeld's legacy by “opening up” his work. Zipperstein examines for the first time the “small mountain” of unfinished manuscripts the writer left behind, as well as his fiercely candid journals and letters. In the process, Zipperstein unearths a turbulent life that was obsessively grounded in a profound commitment to the ideals of the writing life.\\n\\nRosenfeld’s Lives is a fascinating exploration of literary genius and aspiration and the paradoxical power of literature to elevate and to enslave. It illuminates the cultural and political tensions of post-war America, Jewish intellectual life of the era, and—most poignantly—the struggle at the heart of any writer’s life.\\n\\n \u0026quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":6145,\"3\":{\"1\":0,\"3\":1},\"14\":{\"1\":3,\"3\":1},\"15\":\"Arial\"}' data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; color: #000000;\"\u003eA haunting consideration of the extraordinary mind of Saul Bellow’s unjustly forgotten friend and literary rival and the extremes of the writing life\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBorn in Chicago in 1918, the prodigiously gifted and erudite Isaac Rosenfeld was anointed a “genius” upon the publication of his “luminescent” novel, Passage from Home and was expected to surpass even his closest friend and rival, Saul Bellow. Yet when felled by a heart attack at the age of thirty-eight, Rosenfeld had published relatively little, his life reduced to a metaphor for literary failure.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn this deeply contemplative book, Steven J. Zipperstein seeks to reclaim Rosenfeld's legacy by “opening up” his work. Zipperstein examines for the first time the “small mountain” of unfinished manuscripts the writer left behind, as well as his fiercely candid journals and letters. In the process, Zipperstein unearths a turbulent life that was obsessively grounded in a profound commitment to the ideals of the writing life.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRosenfeld’s Lives is a fascinating exploration of literary genius and aspiration and the paradoxical power of literature to elevate and to enslave. 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These novels-five of which he wrote twice, once in Yiddish and once in Hebrew-are devastating satiric portraits of Jewish life in nineteenth-century Russia. They are permeated by Mendele's passion for social change, and an often equally passionate contempt for his own people for failing to achieve it. David Aberbach, exploring these passions in terms of the psychology of prejudice and self-hate, provides the first full-length analysis of the tension between realism and caricature in Mendele's descriptions of his fellow-Jew. At the same time, his analysis conveys Mendele's fascinating social and psychological insights into the forces which led to the mass emigration of Jews from Russia before the First World War, to the rise of Zionism, and to Jewish involvement in the socialist and revolutionary movements in Russia at the turn of the century. 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He also makes available the considerable body of Mendele scholarship that has been published in Hebrew in recent years. From this fascinating and lucid work, scholars and general readers alike will gain a new understanding not only of the social realities of Jewish life in tsarist Russia but also of how the self-image of an ethnic minority may be affected and even determined by the character and social problems of the majority culture.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"ISBS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43220477739070,"sku":"pcz1787285536798","price":3.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/0075\/8846\/files\/realism-caricature-and-bias-the-fiction-of-mendele-mocher-sefarim-by-david-aberb_1.jpg?v=1787285542"},{"product_id":"lingering-bilingualism-modern-hebrew-and-yiddish-literatures-in-contact-by-naomi-brenner","title":"Lingering Bilingualism: Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures in Contact by Naomi Brenner","description":"\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c!--td {border: 1px solid #cccccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--\u003e\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; color: #000000;\" data-sheets-root=\"1\" data-sheets-value='{\"1\":2,\"2\":\"In a famous comment made by the poet Chayim Nachman Bialik, Hebrew—the language of the Jewish religious and intellectual tradition—and Yiddish—the East European Jewish vernacular—were “a match made in heaven that cannot be separated.” That marriage, so the story goes, collapsed in the years immediately preceding and following World War I. But did the “exes” really go their separate ways? Lingering Bilingualism argues that the interwar period represents not an endpoint but rather a new phase in Hebrew-Yiddish linguistic and literary contact. Though the literatures followed different geographic and ideological paths, their writers and readers continued to interact in places like Berlin, Tel Aviv, and New York—and imagined new paradigms for cultural production in Jewish languages. Brenner traces a shift from traditional bilingualism to a new translingualism in response to profound changes in Jewish life and culture. By foregrounding questions of language, she examines both the unique literary-linguistic circumstances of Ashkenazi Jewish writing and the multilingualism that can lurk within national literary canons. \"}' data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":6145,\"3\":{\"1\":0,\"3\":1},\"14\":{\"1\":3,\"3\":1},\"15\":\"Arial\"}' data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; color: #000000;\"\u003eIn a famous comment made by the poet Chayim Nachman Bialik, Hebrew—the language of the Jewish religious and intellectual tradition—and Yiddish—the East European Jewish vernacular—were “a match made in heaven that cannot be separated.” That marriage, so the story goes, collapsed in the years immediately preceding and following World War I. But did the “exes” really go their separate ways? Lingering Bilingualism argues that the interwar period represents not an endpoint but rather a new phase in Hebrew-Yiddish linguistic and literary contact. Though the literatures followed different geographic and ideological paths, their writers and readers continued to interact in places like Berlin, Tel Aviv, and New York—and imagined new paradigms for cultural production in Jewish languages. Brenner traces a shift from traditional bilingualism to a new translingualism in response to profound changes in Jewish life and culture. 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Passionate Women, Passive Men: Suicide in Yiddish Literature challenges this perception, exploring the problem of suicide through a series of literary case studies. Hadda investigates the lives of these fictional suicides, asking the question: What could be so wrong in a person's life that suicide—although forbidden by the Jewish religion—would seem preferable?\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProceeding from the theoretical standpoint that the psychoanalytic process concerns narratives and their interpretations by an analyst, the author argues that the techniques of psychoanalysis may be fruitfully employed for the study of literature. 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She roams effortlessly from Kafka to James, Styron to Stein, and, in the book's most famous essay, dissects the gaudy commercialism that has reduced Anne Frank to \\\u0026quot;usable goods.\\\u0026quot; Courageous, audacious, and sublime, these essays have the courage of conviction, the probing of genius, and the durable audacity to matter. \u0026quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":6145,\"3\":{\"1\":0,\"3\":1},\"14\":{\"1\":3,\"3\":1},\"15\":\"Arial\"}' data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; color: #000000;\"\u003eQuarrel \u0026amp; Quandary showcases the manifold talents of one of our leading and award-winning critics and essayists.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn nineteen opulent essays, Cynthia Ozick probes Dostoevsky for insights into the Unabomber, questions the role of the public intellectual, and dares to wonder what poetry is. She roams effortlessly from Kafka to James, Styron to Stein, and, in the book's most famous essay, dissects the gaudy commercialism that has reduced Anne Frank to \"usable goods.\" Courageous, audacious, and sublime, these essays have the courage of conviction, the probing of genius, and the durable audacity to matter. \u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"RNDM","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43220477870142,"sku":"cam1787285542577","price":10.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/0075\/8846\/files\/quarrel-quandary-essays-by-cynthia-ozick_1.jpg?v=1787285547"},{"product_id":"my-kafka-century-by-arielle-greenberg","title":"My Kafka Century by Arielle Greenberg","description":"\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c!--td {border: 1px solid #cccccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--\u003e\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; color: #000000;\" data-sheets-root=\"1\" data-sheets-value='{\"1\":2,\"2\":\"Poetry. 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In the third chapter, \\\u0026quot;Red Jews,\\\u0026quot; Rubinstein considers the work of Jewish writers from the left, including Tillie Olsen, Michael Gold, Nathanael West, John Sanford, and Howard Fast, and in chapter 4, \\\u0026quot;Henry Roth, Native Son,\\\u0026quot; Rubinstein focuses on Henry Roth's complicated appeals to Indianness. The final chapter, \\\u0026quot;First Nations,\\\u0026quot; addresses contemporary contestations between Jews and Indians over cultural and territorial sovereignty, in literary and political discourse as well as in museum spaces.\\n\\nAs Rubinstein considers how Jews used the figure of the Indian to feel \\\u0026quot;at home\\\u0026quot; in the United States, she enriches ongoing discussions about the ways that Jews negotiated their identity in relation to other cultural groups. 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