Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture Modern by Stephen Miller PAPERBACK

Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish CultureAuthor(s): Stephen Miller, Daniel Morris, Hank Lazer, Charlie Bertsch\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Alabama Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Alabama Press\nISBN-13: 9780817355630, 978-0817355630\nSynopsis\nWhat have I in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself!\""\n--Franz Kafka\n\nKafka's quip--paradoxical, self-questioning, ironic--highlights vividly some of the key issues of identity and self-representation for Jewish writers in the 20th century. No group of writers better represents the problems of Jewish identity than Jewish poets writing in the American modernist tradition--specifically secular Jews: those disdainful or suspicious of organized religion, yet forever shaped by those traditions.\n\nThis collection of essays is the first to address this often obscured dimension of modern and contemporary poetry: the secular Jewish dimension. Editors Daniel Morris and Stephen Paul Mill.