65 research outputs found
Roth\u27s Fiction from Nemesis to Nemesis
No full textIn her article Roth\u27s Fiction from Nemesis to Nemesis Emily Budick discusses Philip Roth\u27s novel Nemesis as the culminating work of a career in which one nemesis or another has afflicted almost all of the author\u27s protagonists. During the bulk of Roth\u27s career, the hero\u27s nemesis was generally, as in the ordinary, literary usage of the term, the protagonist\u27s enemy, whether Judge Wapter in The Ghost Writer or the alter-Roth in The Counterlife. In Nemesis Roth restores the word nemesis to its classical meaning: Nemesis, as the goddess of revenge and cosmic balance. The nemesis in Roth\u27s novel, therefore, is mortality itself, against which human beings vainly strive. It is also the condition of disease and filth that human beings shares with each other and the natural world, that some humans would, with hubris, attempt to put themselves beyond
Metalanguage in Emily Dickinso's poems
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Centro de Comunicação e ExpressãoDevido à sua complexidade e às suas tremendas implicações nas relações humanas, a linguagem sempre apresentou-se como um tema bastante intrigante para os poéticos e teóricos. Não há unanimidade, porém, quanto à sua eficiência na comunicação. Isso faz-se notar de forma particularmente clara quando as chamadas ciências exatas abandonam a comunicação verbal e saem em busca de um código próprio. A linguagem perde, então, o seu status do veículo da verdade. Esta dissertação é uma tentativa de análise de alguns poemas de Emily Dickinson sobre a linguagem e sua importância na vida humana. Nestes poemas, a poeta joga com o paradoxo força/ineficiência das palavras, bem como a significação do silêncio comparado com o vazio presente na linguagem. No capítulo introdutório, eu apresento alguns críticos da poesia de Emily Dickinson. Grande parte desta crítica contribui muito para a análise e a compreensão dos poemas. No próximo capítulo, eu faço uma breve leitura de alguns textos teóricos de Saussure, Wittgenstein e George Steiner sobre a linguagem. O terceiro capítulo contém a análise dos poemas, o que é seguido pela conclusão da dissertação como um todo. De modo geral, eu tento ler os poemas detalhadamente, trilhando as idéias paradóxicas de Dickinson sobre a linguagem, como algo ineficiente, mas necessário
Emily Miller Budick. — Fiction and Historical Consciousness — The American Romance Tradition
No full textDuperray Annick. Emily Miller Budick. — Fiction and Historical Consciousness — The American Romance Tradition. In: Revue Française d'Etudes Américaines, N°44, avril 1990. Le corps dans la culture et la littérature américaine. p. 109
Nineteenth century American romance genre and the construction of democratic culture
No full textNineteenth-century American romance, as a genre, is defined by the writings of a particular group of authors - James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Henry James - all of whom are associated with one another in time and place. In this volume, Emily Miller Budick examines the genre both as a style and within a historical context. She interprets American romance as an evolving literary aesthetic and cultural philosophy - as an effort by a group of writers to produce what Noah Webster called an "American tongue," a language imbued with the values of democracy and pluralism
The Subject of Holocaust Fiction
No full textConsidering works by Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman, Aharon Appelfeld, Michael Chabon, and others, Budick investigates how the reading subject makes sense of these fictionalized presentations of memory and trauma, victims and victimizers.Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue: Ghostwriting the Holocaust: The Ghost Writer, The Diary, The Kindly Ones, and Me -- SECTION I. Psychoanalytic Listening and Fictions of the Holocaust -- 1 Voyeurism, Complicated Mourning, and the Fetish: Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl -- 2 Forced Confessions: Subject Position, Framing, and the "Art" of Spiegelman's Maus -- 3 Aryeh Lev Stollman's The Far Euphrates: Re-Picturing the Pre-Memory Moment -- SECTION II. Golems, Ghosts, Idols, and Messiahs: Complicated Mourning and the Intertextual Construction of a Jewish Symptom -- 4 Bruno Schulz, the Messiah, and Ghost/writing the Past -- 5 A Jewish History of Blocked Mourning and Love -- 6 See Under: Mourning -- SECTION III. Mourning Becomes the Nations: Styron, Schlink, Sebald -- 7 Blacks, Jews, and Southerners in William Styron's Sophie's Choice -- 8 (Re)Reading the Holocaust from a German Point of View: Bernhard Schlink's The Reader -- 9 Mourning and Melancholia in W. G. Sebald's Austerlitz -- Epilogue: Holocaust, Apartheid, and the Slaughter of Animals: J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello and Cora Diamond's "Difficulty of Reality" -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- ZConsidering works by Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman, Aharon Appelfeld, Michael Chabon, and others, Budick investigates how the reading subject makes sense of these fictionalized presentations of memory and trauma, victims and victimizers.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Blacks and Jews in literary conversation
No full textEmily Miller Budick, Blacks and Jews in Literary Conversation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, £35 cloth, £12.95 paper). Pp. 252. ISBN 0 521 63194 7, 0 521 63575 6
Blacks and Jews in Literary Conversation
No full textBlacks and Jews in Literary Conversation explores the works of a range of black and Jewish writers, critics, and academics from the 1950s to the 1980s. By recording conversations both direct, such as essays and letters, and indirect, such as the fiction of Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Alice Walker, Cynthia Ozick, Toni Morrison, and James Baldwin, this book shows how dialogue can engender misperceptions and misunderstandings, and how blacks and Jews in America have both sought and resisted assimilation. By analyzing the history of this discourse, the author explores the ways in which ethnic fiction works in interethnic America, the effects of identity politics, and the tensions and bonds created as African and Jewish Americans continue to construct their ethnic and religious identities in the United States.</jats:p
Saki and Me: The Making of an Americanist
No full textFourth contribution to the Serialized Forum Sacvan Bercovitch, Literary Historian and Theoris
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