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After the Revolution: Studies in Contemporary Jewish-American Imagination
by Mark Shechner
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Very Good
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1987 Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN. 1987. Hardcover. First Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; light shelfwear; light dust soiling around the top edges of the boards. DJ: Very Good; bumping and wear to head and tail; small closed tears along top edge of DJ. Blue cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 261 pp 8vo. This book follows the lives of Jewish-American writers in the 1940s and 1950s who were both political and literary, and whose writing grew out of their politics. The author shows how the ferment of post-Marxist thought in those decades spurred the writing of Lionel Trilling, Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Isaac Rosenfeld, Saul Bellow and Phillip Roth. he argues that their "Jewish writing was grounded less in Jewishness than in a brand of alienation typical of post-Marxism. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015984
- Title
- After the Revolution: Studies in Contemporary Jewish-American Imagination
- Author
- Mark Shechner
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Place of Publication
- Bloomington, IN
- Date Published
- 1987
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- writing, authorship, post-Marx writings, Jewish writers, Jewish novel, Jewish writing, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Freud, Reich, radicalism, communism, Partisan Review
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- Biographies;
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Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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