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Isaac Bashevis Singer : a study of the short fiction / Edward Alexander.

Title
Isaac Bashevis Singer : a study of the short fiction / Edward Alexander.
Author
Alexander, Edward, 1936-
Publication
Boston : Twayne Publishers, 1990.

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Description
xv, 147 pages : portrait; 23 cm.
Summary
A study of Singer's short fiction with critical commentary and textual analysis.
Series Statement
Twayne's studies in short fiction ; no. 18
Uniform Title
Twayne's studies in short fiction no. 18.
Subject
  • Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991 > Interviews
  • Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 1904-1991
  • Singer, Isaac Bashevis 1902-1991
  • Andrae, A
  • Singer, Isaac Bashevis 1904-
  • Singer, Isaac Bashevis
  • Authors, Yiddish > United States > Interviews
  • Jews in literature
  • Short story
  • Novelle
  • Écrivains yiddish > États-Unis > Entretiens
  • Juifs dans la littérature
  • Nouvelle
  • novels
  • short stories
  • Authors, Yiddish
  • Kurzgeschichte
  • Kurzepik
  • Roman
  • Yiddish authors
  • Jews in literature
  • Short story
  • United States
  • Criticism and interpretation
  • Interviews
Genre/Form
  • interviews.
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • Interviews
  • Interviews.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 134-140) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Part 1: The short fiction -- Introduction -- Autobiographical stories: portraits of the artist -- Supernatural and demonic tales -- Moral tales -- Archetypal tales: memory and survival -- Tales of apocalypse and politics -- Stories of faith and doubt -- Stories of love, sex, and perversion -- Vegetarian tales -- Holocaust stories -- Notes to Part I -- Part 2: The writer -- Introduction -- Interview (1963) -- Interview (1970) -- Interview (1979) -- Dialogue with Irving Howe (1973) -- Interview (1985) -- Part 3: The critics -- Introduction -- Irving Howe -- Ruth R. Wisse -- Irving Feldman -- Cynthia Ozick -- Jacob Glatstein.
ISBN
  • 0805783296
  • 9780805783292
LCCN
90037724
OCLC
  • 21592268
  • SCSB-11184409
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library