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Authors: Michael P. Kramer (Editor), Emory Elliot
ISBN-13: 9780521559027, ISBN-10: 0521559022
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: December 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Michael P. Kramer

Book Synopsis

A collection of essays on Saul Bellow's Seize the Day.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface
1Introduction: The Vanishing Jew: On Teaching Bellow's Seize the Day as Ethnic Fiction1
2"Who's he when he's at home?": Saul Bellow's Translations25
3Manners and Morals, Civility and Barbarism: The Cultural Contexts of Seize the Day43
4Imaging Masochism and the Politics of Pain: "Facing" the Word in the Cinetext of Seize the Day71
5Yizkor for Six Million: Mourning the Death of Civilization in Saul Bellow's Seize the Day93
6Death and the Post-Modern Hero/Schlemiel: An Essay on Seize the Day111
Notes on Contributors125
Selected Bibliography127

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