New Covenant: Jewish Writers and the American Idea - Softcover
Girgus defines the American idea as the set of values, beliefs, and traditions of democracy, equality, and republicanism and argues that writers of the New Covenant tradition challenged society to live up to its own imperatives for individual and cultural renewal. Abraham Cahan, Anzi Yezierska, Henry Roth, Johanna Kaplan, Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow, and E. L. Doctorow formed a new poetics" to articulate a modern version of the myth and ideology of America."
Originally published in 1984.
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- PublisherUniversity of North Carolina Press Enduring Editions
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0807896705
- ISBN 13 9780807896709
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages233
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