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- From Stereotype to Metaphor: The Jew in Contemporary Drama
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- 1982
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
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Who is a Jew? What is a Jew? In this all-encompassing study, Dr. Schiff probes these questions to help explain the prominence of Jewish characters in drama since World War II. The Jew has evolved into one of the most popular personages on the contemporary stage. Dramatists, both Jew and Gentile, in the United States and Europe, have been mining recently introduced concepts of the Jew to create a highly diversified and unfamiliar breed of dramatis personae.
Table of Contents
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- Illustrations
- p. viii
- Acknowledgments
- p. xiii
- Part One: Updating Traditions
- 2. Modern Heroes of Biblical Drama
- pp. 39-67
- 3. Myths and Stock Types
- pp. 68-95
- 4. The Jew as Other
- pp. 96-114
- 5. The Jew in a Jewish World
- pp. 115-145
- Part Two: The New Jew
- pp. 147-152
- 6. The Jew and Other Outsiders
- pp. 153-173
- 7. Crises and Conscience of Consciousness
- pp. 174-210
- 8. The Jew as Metaphor
- pp. 211-242
- 9. Conclusion
- pp. 243-247
- Bibliography
- pp. 261-269
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ISBN
9781438418940
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OCLC
794701301
Pages
275
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
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No
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