Naslov
Englander, Nathan

Autori
Willems, Brian Daniel

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
The Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Fiction 1980–2020

Urednik/ci
O'Donnell, Patrick ; Burn, Stephen J. ; Larkin, Lesley

Izdavač
Wiley-Blackwell

Grad
Malden (MA)

Godina
2022

Raspon stranica
1-5

ISBN
9781119431718

Ključne riječi
Nathan Englander ; Jewish American literature

Sažetak
Nathan Englander grew up in an Orthodox Jewish community in West Hempstead, New York. Although he now considers himself agnostic, all of his work is concerned with the great Jewish tradition, starting with Moses, of putting laws to vigorous tests. Whether dealing with the possibility of the deceased saying the prayer for the dead for themselves, or symbolic pacts being taken literally, Englander's work develops a variety of strategies for submitting Jewish law to the test. Five of these strategies are developed in this entry: a blind misapplication of the law which can foreground a law's absurdity, the ability to hold two contradictory statements as being simultaneously true, following a law in a traditional (halachical) but not technical sense, a ceaseless and vibrant questioning of the law, and the relation of Jewish law to the Internet. All of these strategies are used to characterize some of the complexities of Jewish life in the contemporary world.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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