{"product_id":"the-drama-of-the-assimilated-jew-9781442646162","title":"The Drama of the Assimilated Jew","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiorgio Bassani (1916–2000) was a Jewish Italian novelist, poet, essayist, editor, and intellectual. A cosmopolitan writer concerned with the problems of Jewish identity and history, Bassani was deeply affected by the persecution and deportation of Italian Jews under Mussolini. His personal experience of this period and its aftermath was fundamental to the creation of his masterwork, the\u003cem\u003e Romanzo di Ferrara\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eRomance of Ferrara\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Drama of the Assimilated Jew\u003c\/em\u003e, Lucienne Kroha makes Bassani’s personal and literary journey accessible to English-language readers. Kroha’s close, intertextual reading of Bassani’s novels and short stories reveals Bassani’s focus on the issue of Jewish masculinity and his profound engagement with the work of Freud, Nietzsche, and Thomas Mann, whose ideas he appropriated and re-cast to construct the fictional story of his own personal struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The Drama of the Assimilated Jew offers a comprehensive and highly integrated analysis of Bassani's major works, and will be an invaluable tool for scholars of Italian Judaism, modern Jewish Literature in Europe, and the sociology and psychology of Jewish masculinity.' -- Jonathan Druker Italian Culture vol 34:01:2016 'A wide ranging, thought-provoking and intelligent reading of the work of Giorgio Bassani... Kroha's book makes an important contribution to Bassani studies as well as to Jewish studies and gender studies.' -- JoAnn Cannon Journal of Modern Italian Studies vol 20:02:2015 'There is much to praise in this monograph... With her subtle and compelling argument, Kroha has given us more elements to better evaluate the place of Bassani in Italian and European Jewish and non-Jewish literary culture.' -- Emiliano Perra Annali d'Italianistica vol 33:2015 'There is much to praise in this monograph... With her subtle and compelling argument, Kroha has given us more elements to better evaluate the place of Bassani in Italian and European Jewish and non-Jewish literary culture.' -- Emiliano Perra Annali d'Italianistica Vol 33:2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface and Note on Translations  Introduction  Chapter 1 Jews and Gender  Chapter 2 Dentro le mura: Men of Resentment  Chapter 3 Gli occhiali d'oro: Jews and Homosexuals Revisited  Chapter 4 Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini: A Jewish Family Romance  Chapter 5 Dietro la porta: The Body in History  Chapter 6 L'airone: A Case of Mistaken Identity  Chapter 7 L'odore del fieno: On Becoming What One Is  Conclusion  Bibliography","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408368542039,"sku":"9781442646162","price":54.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442646162.jpg?v=1730502641","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-drama-of-the-assimilated-jew-9781442646162","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}