Product Description: The work deals with philo-Semitic texts by the non-Jewish authors of the 19th century. The writer who provides the largest body of relevant material is Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, but works by Gutzkow, Bettine von Arnim, Annette von Droste-Hulshoff, Hebbel, Freytag, Raabe, Fontane, Grillparzer, Ebner-Eschenbach, Anzengruber, and Ferdinand von Saar are also examined, as are several tales by the Alsatian authors Erckmann and Chatrian...read more

Product Description: In Identity and Community, Irving Massey, a Jewish Canadian from Montreal, reexamines his cultural roots and connections. This issues of Canada and Canadian identity lie at the heart of his book, as he struggles with questions of the personal, the communal, and the political in his own background and in the discussion of three authors representative of different Canadian cultures with which Massey identifies...read more

Product Description: This book deals with the intersection of desire, imagery and the literary in the context of ethical concerns, reviewing these themes from several points of view and using a wide variety of literary examples as illustrations.