Transgression and Self-Punishment in Isaac Bashevis Singer's Searches by Walden, Daniel

Transgression and Self-Punishment in Isaac Bashevis Singer's Searches (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820424897)

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Transgression and Self-Punishment in Isaac Bashevis Singer's Searches by Walden, Daniel

Transgression and Self-Punishment in Isaac Bashevis Singer's Searches

$55.95
Transgression and Self-Punishment in Isaac Bashevis Singer's Searches by Walden, Daniel

Transgression and Self-Punishment in Isaac Bashevis Singer's Searches

$55.95
Format: Hardcover
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This study breaks new ground in its juxtaposition of five of Singer's major novels with five of his children stories to piece together Singer's personal struggle for individuality and artistic excellence. It shows, through detailed examination of the fiction, that Singer was forced to pursue these objectives surreptitiously since such non-traditional goals were prohibited in his Hasidic home. He developed an adversarial relationship with God, and created male characters who sought a suprasocial, nonreproductive relationship with women. He punished his characters for these transgressions but, in the end, he also punished some of the fiction.

Author: Daniel Walden,Frances Vargas Gibbons
ISBN-10: 0820424897
ISBN-13: 9780820424897
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 02/01/1995
Pages: 168
Format: Hardcover
By Daniel Walden
By Daniel Walden
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The Author: Frances Vargas Gibbons is Professor of Literature at Universidad de Oriente, Cumaná, Sucre, Venezuela. She received her Ph.D. in North American Literature from the University of Florida. In addition to several articles, she has published a book on American literature and edited a journal and a magazine.

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