"something Dreadful and Grand": American Literature and the Irish-Jewish Unconscious

by Stephen Watt

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Elaborate analogies between Irish and Jewish history, between Irish and Jewish subjectivities, occur with surprising frequency throughout American literature. They recall James Joyce's Leopold Bloom and episodes of Ulysses, Douglas Hyde's analogies during the Celtic Revival between learning Hebrew and learning Irish, and a myriad of claims of an unusual relationship between these peoples that goes beyond comparisons of their respective diasporic...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0190227958

ISBN13:9780190227951

Release Date:July 2015

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"

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