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Devolving English Litterature

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Edinburgh University Press, 2000 - Literary Criticism - 355 pages

Through fiction, memoir, music, photography, and art, In the Catskills highlights the Catskills experience over a century and assesses its continuing impact on American music, comedy, food, culture, and religion. It features selections from such fiction writers as Isaac Bashevis Singer, Herman Wouk, Allegra Goodman and Vivian Gornick; and original contributions from historians, sociologists, and scholars of American and Jewish culture that trace the history of the region, the rise of hotels and bungalow colonies, the wonderful flavors of food and entertainment, and distinctive forms of Jewish religion found in the Mountains.

What was life--the work, the play, the food, the romance--like at Catskills Mountains resorts? These very personal recollections capture the special sense of community and real sense of freedom that developed. Far from the welter of the city, Jewish families learned to vacation and enjoy themselves, to savor the social mobility and cultural space the resorts afforded, and to nourish their culinary and comic traditions. From "Bingo by the Bungalow" by Thane Rosenbaum to "Young Workers in the Hotels" by Phil Brown to "Shoot the Shtrudel to Me Yudel" by Henry Foner, this charming anthology captures an era that has had enormous impact on the Jewish experience and American culture as a whole.

"Whenever I speak about the Catskills," observes editor Phil Brown, "I am struck by the strength of people's desire to relive their experiences in the Mountains." If you've visited the Catskills yourself, or heard stories from your parents or grandparents, or are just interested in this extraordinary time and place, pack your bags and prepare to enjoy your stay In the Catskills.

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JSTOR: Devolving English Literature
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SCHOOL OF ENGLISH
Robert Crawford, Devolving English Literature, Second Edition (Edinburgh: Edinburgh. University Press, 2000). There is no set text for the research training ...
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a product of Ireland’s National University also cited by Ramazani, the proud parochialism of Devolving English Literature owes much more to the recent ...
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Hugh Blair, Robert Burns, and the Invention of Scottish Literature
Crawford, Devolving English Literature, 22, 37. For Crawford’s references to. “internal colonialism” and “cultural imperialism,” see Scottish Invention, ...
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Scottish Literature 1: Further Critical Reading
Crawford, Robert, Devolving English Literature (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992; .... Robert Crawford, Devolving English Literature; The Scottish Invention of ...
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About the author (2000)

Charles Gore is an artist and lecturer in the History of African Art at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

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TitleDevolving English Litterature
AuthorRobert Crawford
Edition2, revised
PublisherEdinburgh University Press, 2000
ISBN074861429X, 9780748614295
Length355 pages
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Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  
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