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Critical Essays on Isaac Bashevis Singer »

Authors: Brace Farrell
ISBN-13: 9780783800288, ISBN-10: 0783800282
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cengage Gale
Date Published: March 1996
Edition: (Non-applicable)

	General Editor's Note
	Publisher's Note
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
	In the Day of a False Messiah	29
	Demons and Dreams	32
	Isaac Singer's Marvels	36
	The Genius of Isaac Bashevis Singer	40
	The Sly Modernism of Isaac Singer	46
	Singer's Last Word	53
	The Saint As Schlemiel	61
	Introduction to Radical Sophistication	66
	The Hidden God of Isaac Bashevis Singer	75
	The Destruction and Resurrection of the Jews in the Fiction of Isaac Bashevis Singer	87
	Singer's Paradoxical Progress	102
	Isaac Bashevis Singer; or, The American-ness of the American Jewish Writer	113
	I. B. Singer - Alone in the Forest	120
	Death by the Word: Victims of Language in Enemies, A Love Story	137
	Passivity and Narration: The Spell of Bashevis Singer	149
	Secularism and Yiddishkeit in Abraham Cahan's "The Imported Bridegroom" and Isaac Bashevis Singer's "The Little Shoemakers"	165
	Manuscript and Metaphor: Translating Isaac Bashevis Singer's Children's Stories	180
	Upside Down in the Daytime: Singer and Male Homosexuality	191
	Judaism, Genius, or Gender: Women in the Fiction of Isaac Bashevis Singer	209
	Contributors of New Essays	220
	Index	223