Facing the Limits of Fiction
Subtitle: Self-Consciousness in Jewish American Literature
Contributors: Wisse, Ruth R.; Sollors, Werner; Wirth-Nesher, Hana
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Description: This thesis explores the limits of fictional language by studying the work of Jewish American writer-critics, novelists who significantly engaged with literary criticism, and critics who experimented with the novel or short fiction. These writer-critics all believed in Literature: they believed that literature could effect social change and educate the masses; or they believed in literature as an art-form, one that exposed the myths underlying American society, or that revealed something fundamental about the human condition.
Notes: Keywords: Authorial Criticism, Jewish American Literature, Literary Criticism, Writer-Critics, Yiddish Literature.

Thesis Ph.D. Harvard University 2013