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Lucienne Kroha - The Drama of the Assimilated Jew: Giorgio Bassani´s Romanzo di Ferrara - 9781442646162 - V9781442646162
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The Drama of the Assimilated Jew: Giorgio Bassani´s Romanzo di Ferrara

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Description for The Drama of the Assimilated Jew: Giorgio Bassani´s Romanzo di Ferrara Hardback. In The Drama of the Assimilated Jew, Lucienne Kroha makes Bassani's personal and literary journey accessible to English-language readers. Series: Toronto Italian Studies. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 630.
Giorgio Bassani (1916-2000) was a Jewish Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and intellectual. A cosmopolitan writer concerned with the problems of Jewish identity and history, Bassani was deeply affected by the persecution and deportation of Italian Jews under Mussolini. His personal experience of this period and its aftermath was fundamental to the creation of his masterwork, the Romanzo di Ferrara (Romance of Ferrara). In The Drama of the Assimilated Jew, Lucienne Kroha makes Bassani's personal and literary journey accessible to English-language readers. Kroha's close, intertextual reading of Bassani's novels and short stories reveals Bassani's focus on the issue of ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
Toronto Italian Studies
Condition
New
Weight
629g
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442646162
SKU
V9781442646162
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About Lucienne Kroha
Lucienne Kroha is an associate professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at McGill University.

Reviews for The Drama of the Assimilated Jew: Giorgio Bassani´s Romanzo di Ferrara
'The Drama of the Assimilated Jew offers a comprehensive and highly integrated analysis of Bassani's major works, and will be an invaluable tool for scholars of Italian Judaism, modern Jewish Literature in Europe, and the sociology and psychology of Jewish masculinity.'
Jonathan Druker Italian Culture vol 34:01:2016 'A wide ranging, thought-provoking and intelligent reading of the work of Giorgio ... Read more

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