The Schlemiel as Metaphor: Studies in the Yiddish and American Jewish Novel

by Sanford Pinsker and Professor Sanford Pinsker B.A. Ph.D.

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The certainty that deep down we are all schlemiels is perhaps what makes America love an inept ball team or a Woody Allen who unburdens his neurotic heart in public.

In this unique, revised history of the schlemiel, Sanford Pinsker uses psychological, linguistic, and anecdotal approaches, as well as his considerable skills as a spritely storyteller, to trace the schlemiel from his beginnings in the Old Testament through...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0809304805

ISBN13:9780809304806

Release Date:March 1971

Publisher:Southern Illinois University Press

Length:192 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 4.9" x 8.3"

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Contemporary Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction World Literature

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