The hidden Isaac Bashevis Singer
By: edited by Seth L. Wolitz.
Contributors: Wolitz, Seth L.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The literary modernism series
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Singer, Isaac Bashevis, -- 1904- -- Criticism and interpretation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. The Yiddish language and the Yiddish cultural experience in Bashevis's writings.  A canticle for Isaac: a Kaddish for Bashevis / Irving Saposnik ; Bashevis/Singer and the Jewish pope / Joseph Sherman ; History, messianism, and apocalypse in Bashevis's work / Avrom Noversztern ; Sociolinguistic views of Isaac Bashevis Singer / Mark L. Louden; title: Pt. 2. Thematic approaches to the study of Bashevis's fiction. Bilom in Bashevis's Der knekht (The slave): A khaye hot oykh a neshome (An animal also has a soul) / Leonard Prager ; Art and religion in Der bal-tshuve (The penitent) / Alan Astro ; "Death is the only messiah": three supernatural stories by Yitskhok Bashevis / Jan Schwarz; title: Pt. 3. Bashevis's interface with other times and cultures.  Bashevis's interactions with the Mayse-bukh (Book of tales) / Astrid Starck-Adler; title: The role of Polish language and literature in Bashevis's fiction / Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska; title: Pt. 4. Interpretations of Bashevis's autobiographical writings.  Revealing Bashevis's earliest autobiographical novel, Varshe 1914-1918 (Warsaw 1914-1918) / Nathan Cohen ; Folk and folklore in the work of Bashevis / Itzik Gottesman ; Bashevis at Forverts / Janet Hadda; title: Pt. 5. Bashevis's untranslated "gangster" novel: Yarme un keyle.  A background note on the translation of Yarme un keyle / Joseph Sherman ; Yarme and Keyle: chapter 2 / Isaac Bashevis Singer, trnaslated by Joseph Sherman; title: Appendix.  Bashevis Singer as a regionalist of Lublin province: a note / Seth L. Wolitz and Joseph Sherman.