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The New Covenant : Jewish Writers and the American Idea
- Title
- The New Covenant : Jewish Writers and the American Idea / Sam B. Girgus.
- Author
- Girgus, Sam B., 1941-
- Publication
- Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [1984]
- ©1984
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/Text | Use in library | PS374.J48 G57 1984 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xi, 220 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- The author "defines the American idea as the set of values, beliefs, and traditions of democracy, equality, and republicanism and argues that writers of the New Covenant tradition challenged society to live up to its own imperatives for individual and cultural renewal. Abraham Cahan, Anzi Yezierska, Henry Roth, Johanna Kaplan, Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow, and E. L. Doctorow formed a new poetics" to articulate a modern version of the myth and ideology of America" (Amazon.com).
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Geschichte 1880-1980
- American fiction > Jewish authors > History and criticism
- Judaism and literature > United States > History > 20th century
- American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
- Jews > United States > Intellectual life
- Jewish fiction > History and criticism
- Jews in literature
- American fiction
- American fiction > Jewish authors
- Civilization > Jewish influences
- Jewish fiction
- Jews > Intellectual life
- Judaism and literature
- Romancier
- Juden
- Roman
- Roman
- United States > Civilization > Jewish influences
- United States
- USA
- Juden
- USA
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Jüdischer Autor.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [203]-213.
- Contents
- 1. A poetics of the American idea: A new hero of thought in a new narrative -- In search of the real America: Bernard Malamud -- 2. Ideology and culture: The American way: from the colonial era to Louis Brandeis, Sidney Hillman, and the liberal consensus -- A convert to America: sex, self, and ideology in Abraham Cahan -- 3. The ghetto: shelter and prison: A portrait of the artist as a young Luther: Henry Roth -- "Blut-und-eisen": Anzia Yezierska and the new self-made woman -- The Jew as underground man: Philip Roth -- 4. The book of America: Song of him-self: Norman Mailer -- A true radical history: E.L. Doctorow -- Postscript: toward a new consensus.
- ISBN
- 0807815772
- 9780807815779
- LCCN
- 83012458
- OCLC
- ocm09684587
- 9684587
- SCSB-96128
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library