The Image of the Shtetl and Other Studies of Modern Jewish Literary Imagination

by Dan Miron

Book Overview

While A Traveler Disguised focused on the rhetoric of the speaking voice or the persona in these classics, the nine essays gathered here concentrate on the artistic reconstruction of the "world" conveyed by that persona.

As much as the earlier volume put to rest the conventional understanding of "Mendele the Book-Peddler" as a mere representative of the author, Sh. Y. Abramovitsh, this book invalidates the common views of the literary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815628587
• ISBN13: 9780815628583
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"