Product Description: What Happened to Abraham? Reinventing the Covenant in American Jewish Fiction examines the ways in which contemporary American Jewish writers reinvent and reconfigure stories of the Hebraic covenant as a way of conceiving, negotiating, and redefining Jewish identity in America...read more

Product Description: Exploring the importance of storytelling in articulating the vicissitudes of individual and communal identity in 20th-century American Jewish fiction, this study focuses upon the short story, and on figures such as Aleichem, Schwartz, Roth, Malamud, Salinger and Spiegelman.

Product Description: This volume addresses the classical connection between rhetoric and ethics, its fragmentation during the 17th century, and the reunification of rhetoric and ethics in the 20th century. It includes such essays as "Platonic Rhetoric" by Charles Salman, "Persons, Personae, and Ghost Writing: Ethics and Fictive Voice" by George E...read more

Product Description: A study of Sholom Aleichem's use of literary techniques and the ways in which his changing attitudes toward Eastern European shtetl life influenced them. This work also examines how the reader's response to fiction may be controlled by the writer's design for the work. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)