Accidents of Influence: Writing As a Woman and a Jew in America (Suny Series in Modern Jewish Literature & Culture) - Hardcover

Rosen, Norma

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791410919 ISBN 13: 9780791410912

Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr, 1992

Synopsis

For Norma Rosen, the Holocaust is the central event of the twentieth century. In this book, she examines the relationship of post-Holocaust writers to their work in terms of subject, language, imagery, and facing up to the task of writing in a post-Holocaust era. She considers the work of such major influences on our time as T. S. Eliot, Simone Weil, Anne Frank, E. L. Doctorow, Norman Mailer, Eugenio Montale, Philip Roth, and Saul Bellow. Accidents of Influence combines critical analysis with personal response and autobiographical moments. It includes quotidian encounters in friendship, sex, society, art, politics, response to violence, and religious observance, which struggle for moral ground in this post-Holocaust era.

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About the Author

Norma Rosen currently teaches at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She is the author of the novels Joy to Levine!; Touching Evil; At the Center; John and Anzia: An American Romance; and a collection of short stories, Green.

Edition details

• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791410919
• ISBN 13: 9780791410912
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 210