Accidents of Influence: Writing As a Woman and a Jew in America (S U N Y Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture)

By Norma Rosen and Dr Norma Rosen

Book Overview

For Norma Rosen, the Holocaust is the central event of the twentieth century. In this book, she examines the relationship of post-Holocaust writers to their work in terms of subject, language, imagery, and facing up to the task of writing in a post-Holocaust era. She considers the work of such major influences on our time as T. S. Eliot, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, E. L. Doctorow, Norman Mailer, Eugenio Montale, Philip Roth, and Saul Bellow. Accidents of Influence combines critical analysis with personal response and autobiographical moments. It includes quotidian encounters in friendship, sex, society, art, politics, response to violence, and religious observance, which struggle for moral ground in this post-Holocaust era.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791410927
• ISBN13: 9780791410929
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher