Critical Views of Isaac Bashevis Singer - Hardcover

Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 268 pages; Description: xix, 268 p. 21 cm. Subject: Singer, Isaac Bashevis, -- 1904-1991 -- Criticism and interpretation. Singer, Isaac Bashevis, -- 1904-1991 -- Bibliography. Jews in literature. Series: The Gotham library. Contents: An interview with Isaac Bashevis Singer / Joel Blocker and Richard Elman --A conversation with Isaac Bashevis Singer / Marshall Breger and Bob Barnhart --Translating with Isaac Bashevis Singer / Ruth Whitman --Isaac Bashevis Singer : passionate primitive or pious Puritan? / J.A. Eisenberg --The redeemers : themes in the fiction of Isaac Bashevis Singer / Michael Fixler --Isaac Bashevis Singer : the faith of his devils and magicians / J.S. Wolkenfeld --I.B. Singer / Irving Howe --I.B. Singer's vision of good and evil / Baruch Hochman --Isaac Bashevis Singer , radical sophistication, and the Jewish-American novel / Max F. Schulz --Demonology and dualism : the supernatural in Isaac Singer and Muriel Spark / Karl Malkoff --History in I.B. Singer's novels / Jules Chametzky --Isaac Bashevis Singer : the appeal of numbers / Melvin J. Friedman --Isaac's nominal case : In my father's court / Edwin Gittleman --Spinoza and Spinozism in Singer's shorter fiction / Samuel I. Mintz.