Henry Roth's Call it Sleep, praised when it first appeared in the 1930s, neglected for decades, and reissued to wide acclaim in the 1960s, has been finally hailed as the finest Jewish-American novel of the first half of the century and one of the richest modernist novels to appear in America. The introduction and essays locate the novel in its cultural context and in terms of contemporary debates about ethnic literature, minority writing, modernism and canonization. Thus the volume sets out to consider Roth's hybrid status--as an American writer, a Jewish writer, and a European modernist.
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This volume sets out to consider Roth's hybrid status--as an American writer, a Jewish writer, and a European modernist. The introduction and essays locate the novel in its cultural context and in terms of contemporary debates about ethnic literature, minority writing, modernism and canonization.
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Worth owning for fans of Call It Sleep,
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This review is from: New Essays on Call It Sleep (The American Novel) (Paperback)
This collection of essays on CIS is a good find. Some of the essays are more thought-provoking than others; Werner Sollors' "'A World Somewhere, Somewhere Else': Language, Nostalgic Mornfulness, and Urban Immigrant Family Romance In Call It Sleep" and Leslie Fielder's "The Many Myths of Henry Roth" make the book worth buying.
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SIX decades have passed since Henry Roth's first and only novel appeared, but he has been far from silent during that time, talking and writing compulsively about his long block and his abortive attempts to break through it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
noisiest novel, ethnic modernism, milk ladle, milk dipper, mythic subtext, interior discourse, modernist poetics, proletarian novel, existential hero, golden land, eternal years, immigrant child Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Henry Roth, Lower East Side, David Schearl, Rude Stream, Eda Lou Walton, Statue of Liberty, Aunt Bertha, New Masses, Leslie Fiedler, Old World, Hana Wirth-Nesher, Morris Park, New Essays, Shifting Landscape, Star Shines, Dos Passos, Harvard University Press, Irving Howe, Mario Materassi, Oxford University Press, James Joyce, New Mexico, Werner Sollors, Bonnie Lyons New!
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SIX decades have passed since Henry Roth's first and only novel appeared, but he has been far from silent during that time, talking and writing compulsively about his long block and his abortive attempts to break through it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
noisiest novel, ethnic modernism, milk ladle, milk dipper, mythic subtext, interior discourse, modernist poetics, proletarian novel, existential hero, golden land, eternal years, immigrant child Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Henry Roth, Lower East Side, David Schearl, Rude Stream, Eda Lou Walton, Statue of Liberty, Aunt Bertha, New Masses, Leslie Fiedler, Old World, Hana Wirth-Nesher, Morris Park, New Essays, Shifting Landscape, Star Shines, Dos Passos, Harvard University Press, Irving Howe, Mario Materassi, Oxford University Press, James Joyce, New Mexico, Werner Sollors, Bonnie Lyons New!
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- Call It Sleep: A Novel by Henry Roth on 99 pages
- Shifting Landscape by Henry Roth on 18 pages
- The Waste Land (Norton Critical Editions) by T. S. Eliot on 11 pages
- The Waste Land and Other Writings (Modern Library Classics) by T.S. Eliot on 11 pages
- The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound by T. S. Eliot on 11 pages
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- Strangers at Home: American Ethnic Modernism between the World Wars by Rita Keresztesi on 5 pages
- The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Mary Esteve on 5 pages
- Legacy of Rage: Jewish Masculinity, Violence, and Culture by Warren Rosenberg in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth by Steven G. Kellman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Call It English: The Languages of Jewish American Literature by Hana Wirth-Nesher in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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