Transferring to America: Jewish Interpretations of American Dreams

Contents

Contents Preface • ix Acknowledgments • xvii Introduction: The Tactics ofCultural Integration • 1 Part One 1. Sources ofAssistance: French Theory and Psychoanalysis • 41 2. Prospects of Culture: Interpreting American Dreams • 77 Part Two 3. Wrest(l)ing Authority: The Agonism ofHarold Bloom ·127 4. Finding Acknowledgment: The Inheritance ofStanley Cavell • 167 5. Identifying Rhetorics: The Acculturation ofSacvan Bercovitch • 215 Conclusion • 261 Notes • 275 Index· 295 ...