Siegel, Ben 1925-Overview
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Ben Siegel
Isaac Bashevis Singer
by Ben Siegel
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6 editions published between 1969 and 1971 in English and held by 1,201 libraries worldwide
Traditions, voices, and dreams : the American novel since the 1960s
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7 editions published between 1995 and 1997 in English and held by 653 libraries worldwide Traditions, Voices, and Dreams offers the interested reader ample testimony that the American Novel is alive, well, and steadily breaking new ground. These collected essays also provide a new text for contemporary American novel classes.... [It] puts into perspective such contemporary masters as John Barth, Saul Bellow, E. L. Doctorow, Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates, Flannery O'Connor, Cynthia Ozick, Walker Percy, Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth, William Styron, John Updike, and Kurt Vonnegut and the strikingly sectarian John Kennedy Toole. Also discussed are such recent and important ethnic and women writers as Maya Angelou, Jamaica Kincaid, Maxine Hong Kingston, Marilyn Robinson, Elizabeth Dewberry Vaughan, and Alice Walker.
Turning up the flame : Philip Roth's later novels
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6 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 629 libraries worldwide "The time would appear ripe then to take a closer look at Roth's more recent or "later" fiction. That is the intent of this gathering of critical essays. This is the only essay collection devoted primarily to Roth's fiction of the last two decades. It includes fourteen essays, written by some of the leading Roth specialists in this country and abroad."--BOOK JACKET.
Daughters of valor : contemporary Jewish American women writers
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4 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 502 libraries worldwide
The Puritan heritage : America's roots in the Bible
by Joseph Gaer
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4 editions published in 1964 in English and held by 496 libraries worldwide
Critical essays on E.L. Doctorow
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4 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 487 libraries worldwide Anmeldelser og artikler.
The controversial Sholem Asch : an introduction to his fiction
by Ben Siegel
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3 editions published in 1976 in English and held by 413 libraries worldwide
The American writer and the university
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3 editions published in 1989 in English and held by 406 libraries worldwide
Conversations with Saul Bellow
by Saul Bellow
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2 editions published in 1994 in English and held by 373 libraries worldwide For over forty years Saul Bellow has been writing fiction that denounces the destructive forces that have dominated the literature of this century - existential nihilism and historicist pessimism. In novel after novel - The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, Humboldt's Gift, Mr. Sammler's Planet, and others - he has tried to restore the integrity of the private life, the value of human feeling, and the primacy of social contract and proclaimed each individual's perennial access to age-old truths. In this collection of interviews spanning the period from 1953 to 1992, Bellow elaborates further upon his fictional treatment of these ideas. Here the reader finds the wit and urbane commentary that typify this marvelous writer. He speaks with his interviewers of the changing role of fiction, the literary establishment, and the place of literature in modern life.
Critical essays on Nathanael West
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2 editions published in 1994 in English and held by 355 libraries worldwide
Conversations with Robert Penn Warren
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2 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 275 libraries worldwide
Biography past and present; selections and critical essays
by William Henry Davenport
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1 edition published in 1965 in English and held by 248 libraries worldwide
Comparative literary dimensions : essays in honor of Melvin J. Friedman
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4 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 231 libraries worldwide
Playful and serious : Philip Roth as a comic writer
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2 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 203 libraries worldwide "Few contemporary American writers have stirred the minds and emotions of their readers as Philip Roth has done. Even fewer writers have excelled in various forms of the comic as Roth has for over a half-century. Playful and Serious assembles a group of outstanding Roth scholars and critics who focus their attention on the different ways Roth brings his comic tendencies to bear on essentially serious topics. The term "comic" is used in the broadest sense to include humor, irony, satire, comedy, black comedy, and their variations. As co-editor Ben Siegel points out, Roth's special humor often appears to grow "more surrealistic and obsessive, as in each new fiction he tries not merely to surpass the daily news but to touch what is deeply private and dark in the modern psyche." In the process, he targets "his society's most deeply embedded pieties and hypocrisies, enthusiasms, and lunacies."" "This collection takes account of the majority of Roth's works, beginning with some of his earliest stories and ending with several of his most recent novels. It also includes an account of several relatively neglected works, such as "Novotny's Pain" and "On the Air," but the essays in this volume deal mainly with the major works of fiction. They clearly show how Roth's interest in comedy has evolved from the outrageous but nonetheless hilarious comedy of Portnoy's Complaint to the more profoundly comic aspects of The Human Stain and subsequent novels. While death has increasingly become a preoccupation of those latest novels, Roth has not lost his ability to show how tragedy and comedy interact in, for example, Indignation."--BOOK JACKET.
American literary dimensions : poems and essays in honor of Melvin J. Friedman
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4 editions published in 1999 in English and held by 171 libraries worldwide
Elements of the Old Testament in early seventeenth century English poetry
by Ben Siegel
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1 edition published in 1956 in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide
The controversial Sholem Asch
by Ben Siegel
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1 edition published in 1976 in English and held by 1 library worldwide
Biography past and present : selections and critical essays
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1 edition published in 1965 in English and held by 1 library worldwide more
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American fiction American literature American literature--Jewish authors American literature--Women authors American poetry Asch, Sholem,--1880-1957 Authors, American Authors, Yiddish Authors as teachers Bellow, Saul Bible Bible. Bible as literature Biography Biography Christianity and other religions--Judaism College stories, American College teachers Creative writing (Higher education) Criticism, interpretation, etc. Doctorow, E. L.,--1931- English philology--Study and teaching English poetry--Early modern European literature Historical fiction, American History Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Intellectual life Interviews Jewish women--Intellectual life Jews Judaism and literature Judaism--Influence Judaism--Relations--Christianity Literature Puritans Religion Roth, Philip Singer, Isaac Bashevis,--1904-1991 Songs with piano Southern States United States Universities and colleges Warren, Robert Penn,--1905-1989 West, Nathanael,--1903-1940 Women and literature
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