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Dossier K
Imre Kertesz

ISBN10: 1612192025 ISBN13: 9781612192024
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 09 May 2013

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Double Agents
Erin G Carlston

ISBN10: 0231136730 ISBN13: 9780231136730
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 May 2013
Why were white bourgeois gay male writers so interested in spies, espionage, and treason in the twentieth century? Erin G. Carlston believes such figures and themes were critical to exploring citizenship and its limits, requirements... More

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ISBN: 9780199976003 - A Thousand Darknesses

A Thousand Darknesses
Ruth Franklin

ISBN10: 0199976007 ISBN13: 9780199976003
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 04 Apr 2013
A Thousand Darknesses takes a provocative look at the primary works of literature about the Holocaust, arguing that the line between fact and fiction, memoir and novel, is all but impossible to draw. What is the difference between writing a novel... More

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Promiscuous
Bernard Avishai

ISBN10: 030019241X ISBN13: 9780300192414
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02 Apr 2013
The publication of "Portnoy's Complaint" in 1969 provoked instant, powerful reactions. The author offers an exploration of Roth's satiric masterpiece, based on the prolific novelist's own writings, teaching notes, and personal interviews. More

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ISBN: 9781845195861 - Colorful Was Their Voice

Colorful Was Their Voice
Shahar Bram, Neta Goren

ISBN10: 1845195868 ISBN13: 9781845195861
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Mar 2013
A collaboration between a poet and an artist, "Colorful Was Their Voice" pays tribute to American poetry in word and colour portraiture. It is the outcome of a dialogue in which ideas and thoughts continuously shift between the visual and the verbal. More

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ISBN: 9781844672264 - The Last Resistance

The Last Resistance
Jacqueline Rose

ISBN10: 1844672263 ISBN13: 9781844672264
Publisher: Verso Books
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 29 Jan 2013
A bravura exploration of politics and writing in dark times. In The Last Resistance, Jacqueline Rose explores the power of writing to create and transform our political lives. In particular, she examines the role of literature in the Zionist... More

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Jews and Words
Amos Oz, Fania Oz-Salzberger

ISBN10: 0300156472 ISBN13: 9780300156478
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Nov 2012
Why are words so important to Jews? The authors roam the gamut of Jewish history to explain the integral relationship of Jews and words. Through a blend of storytelling and scholarship, conversation and argument, they tell the tales behind... More

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ISBN: 9780230290129 - Modernism and Zionism

Modernism and Zionism
David Ohana

ISBN10: 0230290124 ISBN13: 9780230290129
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 10 Oct 2012
Part of Palgrave's Modernism and... series, Modernism and Zionism explores the relationship between modernism and the Jewish national ideology, the Zionist movement, which was operative in all areas of Jewish art and culture. Building new... More

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ISBN: 9780230390645 - Carlo Levi's Visual Poetics

Carlo Levi's Visual Poetics
Giovanna Faleschini Lerner

ISBN10: 0230390641 ISBN13: 9780230390645
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 24 Sep 2012
Carlo Levi's Visual Poetics explores the relation of word and image in Carlo Levi's literary works. Lerner investigates the ways in which the dialogue between verbal and iconic systems of representations becomes an instrument of literary and... More

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The Hasidic Tale
Gedalyah Nigal

ISBN10: 1906764417 ISBN13: 9781906764418
Publisher: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 31 Aug 2012
This thematically arranged compendium with accompanying historical analysis makes a fascinating contribution to the history of hasidism, of Hebrew literature, and of Jewish popular culture. Story-telling has been an integral part of the hasidic... More

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