Studies in Modern Jewish Literature

Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature Arnold J Band
Jewish Publication Society
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Spanning a period of over 40 years, the essays in this remarkable anthology are a product of a long and illustrious career in Jewish studies. Band has assembled a collection of treatises written in both.

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English and Hebrew, each reflecting the historical period of its composition, from the tumultuous 1960s through the beginning of the new millennium. Band's writings resonate with the array of critical styles found in everything from New Criticism, with its close textual readings, to Structuralism, to Post- Structuralism, and to Cultural Criticism. They cover a wide range of topics, representative of Band's intellectual propensity.