Off-canon Pleasures
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Description
Contents
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Language
English
ISBN
978-3-941875-95-1
Preface
Contents
1 Introduction
1 Internationality, external and internal
2 Leo Rosten and Archibald Macleish
3 The critical standing of Rosten and MacLeish
4 Summary
2 Leo Rosten and the Matter of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N
1 The “new immigrants” and Americanization
2 Jews in twentieth-century American humor
3 Narrating a Night School for Adults
4 The opening situation
5 The wide world of The Education of Hyman Kaplan, the wider world of O Kaplan! My Kaplan!
6 Language humor and beyond
7 An international problem in beginners’ grade
8 Mr. Kaplan’s education
9 Summary
3 Archibald MacLeish and the Theme of Imminent War
1 Context of politics, poetics, and radio
2 Doctrines of air war
3 Pablo Picasso’s Guernica
4 Old style war and new in Air Raid
5 The radio art of Air Raid
6 Summary
4 Perspective
1 Ten more works of low visibility
2 Invitation
Appendices
Appendix I – A Brief Propositional Examination of the Canon
Appendix II – Reporting Guernica – Questions of Knowing
1 An air raid and its repercussions
2 A war correspondent’s ways of knowing
3 George L. Steer: Launching the story of Guernica
4 “Historic Basque Town Wiped Out” as news story
5 George L. Steer: Revising the story of Guernica
6 Later accounts
7 Conclusions
References
Literature Consulted
Backcover
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