"Something dreadful and grand" : American literature and the Irish-Jewish unconscious /

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This study traces the often uncanny relationships between Irish- and Jewish-Americans, arguing for the centrality of these diasporic groups to the development of American popular music, fiction, and especially drama. The book reads such cultural forms as tenement fiction, Tin Pan Alley music, and me...

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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Watt, Stephen
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford University Press 2015
Zusammenfassung:
This study traces the often uncanny relationships between Irish- and Jewish-Americans, arguing for the centrality of these diasporic groups to the development of American popular music, fiction, and especially drama. The book reads such cultural forms as tenement fiction, Tin Pan Alley music, and melodrama as part of a larger 'circum-North Atlantic' world in which texts and performers from Ireland, Europe, and America were involved in a continuous cultural exchange within which stereotypes and performances of Jewishness and Irishness took centre stage.
Umfang:
1 online resource (270 p.)
Anmerkungen:
Description based upon print version of record.
Anmerkungen:
English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-027299-6
0-19-022797-4
0-19-022796-6
Schlagworte:
American literature > Irish influences.
Jews in literature.
Irish in literature.
Popular music > United States > Irish influences.
Popular music > United States > Jewish influences.
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