Who wants to be a Jewish writer? : and other essays / Adam Kirsch.
| Author/creator | Kirsch, Adam, 1976- author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019] |
| Copyright Date | ©2019 |
| Description | 1 online resource (xii, 216 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Preface; Who Wants to Be a Jewish Writer?; The Book of Psalms; Seamus Heaney and the Question of Goodness; The Faith of Christian Wiman; Kay Ryan: The Less Deceived; Extension of the Domain of Struggle; The Poetry of World and the Poetry of Earth; Poetry and the Problem of Politics; Night Thoughts; Stefan Zweig at the End of the World; Non-Jewish Jews: Rosa Luxemburg and Isaac Deutscher; Angels of Liberalism; Is There Such a Thing as Jewish Literature?; Acknowledgments; Index. |
| Abstract | From one of today's keenest critics comes a collection of essays on poetry, religion, and the connection between the two Adam Kirsch is one of today's finest literary critics. This collection brings together his essays on poetry, religion, and the intersections between them, with a particular focus on Jewish literature. He explores the definition of Jewish literature, the relationship between poetry and politics, and the future of literary reputation in the age of the internet. Several essays look at the way Jewish writers such as Stefan Zweig and Isaac Deutscher, who coined the phrase "the non Jewish Jew," have dealt with politics. Kirsch also examines questions of spirituality and morality in the writings of contemporary poets, including Christian Wiman, Kay Ryan, and Seamus Heaney. He closes by asking why so many American Jewish writers have resisted that category, inviting us to consider "Is there such a thing as Jewish literature?" |
| Source of description | Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 6, 2019). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Kirsch, Adam, 1976- Who wants to be a Jewish writer? New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019] 9780300240139 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| ISBN | 9780300245134 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 0300245130 (electronic bk.) |
| Stock number | 22573/ctvd2v2fn JSTOR |
| Stock number | 6B23BDA2-1B3A-48F9-887E-0F3E1D37C9DD OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |