...This chapter examines the roles that narrative fiction—primarily orthodox novels and novellas of contemporary Jewish life—played in creating and sustaining a vision of orthodoxy as wedded to German culture and ideas about modernity as it was to maintaining the continuity with Jewish tradition which...

...This book explores the association between chance and gambling by presenting case studies dealing with the intersection of American fiction with various cultures of chance from Reconstruction to the New Deal. It looks at novels and fiction by American writers ranging from Edith Wharton to William...

...This chapter compares two novels: Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh's (Mendele Moykher-Sforim) Di Klyatshe and Wole Soyinka's The Interpreters. Comprised of twenty-four chapters, Di Klyatshe parodies haskole by telling the story...

...At the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth, Japanese fiction pulsed with an urge to render good and evil in ways that evoked dramatic emotions. This book examines four enormously popular novels from this period by interweaving two threads of argument. Using approaches...

... engagement, trust others and respond to incentives aimed at individuals, work in teams, and respond to different leadership styles. The chapter examines some of these issues within the scope of a literary approach to Brazilian temperament and the ways it can be appraised by means of characters of novels...

..., the Civil War, industrialization, mass immigration, the rioting and unrest that took place in the late 1960s, or the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. It is also the setting for Philip Roth's fiction, including his three novels, sometimes called the American trilogy but more accurately can be called...

..., where Ishmael, the melancholic New Yorker, embarks on a long journey. Two other novels by Roth, Sabbath's Theater and Goodbye, Columbus, also deal with leaving, while William Shakespeare's drama Julius Caesar is an anachronistic, illuminating commentary...

...This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on anticorruption novels and the discourse of corruption in China, explaining that the authors of the novels analyzed blamed both untrammeled money and unregulated power for corruption, and are uniformly incensed by unjust bureaucratic power...

...This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this book, which is about marriage, modernity, and the connection between law and literature in modern Iran. The book analyzes how the texts of novels were understood both at the moment of their historical moments of enunciation as well as at later...

... of the Vichy regime on the list of writers who had collaborated and must be “purged.” By then, though, Céline had fled France. When he returned in 1951, he resumed publishing novels—D'un château l'autre (1957), Nord (1960), and Guignols' Band II (1964), among...

...This book is in the unseemly position of defending censorship from the central allegations that are traditionally leveled against it. Taking two genres generally presumed to have been stymied by the censor's knife—the Victorian novel and classical Hollywood film—it reveals the varied ways in which...

... this process in reverse, recasting England from its imperial peripheries. These rewritings of Heart of Darkness further describe the changing forms of both nations and novels, from the resistant realism of Achebe's portrait of a cultured and deeply historical precolonial Africa...

...One of the oldest cities in America, Newark was founded in 1666 by Puritans from Connecticut who wanted to start a new life on new soil. In his three novels, the so-called Newark trilogy—American Pastoral (1997), I Married a Communist (1998), and The Human...

... by comparing two novels: Dos Vintshfingerl (“The Magic Ring,” or “The Wishing Ring”), by Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Moykher-Sforim), and L'aventure ambiguë, by Cheikh Hamidou Kane. Abramovitsh Sholem Yankev Mendele Moykher Sforim African literature Aksenfeld Yisroel...

...This book traces the relationship between the law and literature in Iran to reveal the profound ambiguities at the heart of Iranian ideas of modernity regarding women's rights and social status. It reveals how novels mediate legal reforms, and examines how authors have used realism to challenge...

...Kenyan women writers such as Charity Waciuma (Daughter of Mumbi) and Muthoni Likimani (They Shall Be Chastised) addressed the issue of excision in their novels by dwelling on unexcised women, or irugu. In Kenya, unexcised girls are wedged between...

...As China's centrally planned economy and welfare state have given way to a more loosely controlled version of “late socialism,” public concern about economic reform's downside has found expression in epic novels about official corruption and its effects. While the media shied away from dealing...

...This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this book, which is about corruption and realism in political novels in late socialist China. It analyzes five Chinese works of political fiction, including Lu Tianming's Heaven Above, Chen Fang's Heaven's Wrath...

...This chapter offers a critical analysis of three contemporary historical novels that use picaresque features to portray the experiences of Jews and conversos in Spain, Portugal, and colonial Latin America. Written during the last quarter of the twentieth century, these novels link the literary...