MARC Record from marc_oapen

LEADER: 03841namaa2200385uu 450
001 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32562
005 20161231
020 $agup2011-400
024 7 $a10.17875/gup2011-400$cdoi
041 0 $aEnglish
042 $adc
072 7 $aC$2bicssc
072 7 $aD$2bicssc
072 7 $aDSG$2bicssc
072 7 $aDSK$2bicssc
072 7 $aFC$2bicssc
100 1 $aFrank, Armin Paul,$4auth
245 10 $aOff-Canon pleasures - a case study and a perspective
260 $bUniversitätsverlag Göttingen$c2011
506 0 $aOpen Access$2star$fUnrestricted online access
520 $aThe inclusion of works in a canonical list creates a large body of exclusions. But among these neglected works there are not a few that nevertheless are worth reading. Literary worth is not necessarily aesthetic impeccability. A literary work recommends itself by a high degree of artistic achievement with elbowroom for historical importance. The present study focuses on Leo Rosten’s immigration novel The Education of Hyman Kaplan (1937) and Archibald MacLeish’s radio play Air Raid (1938). The first is more than the apparent compendium of language-based jokes. Read in the context of immigration policy from Presidents Theodore Roosevelt to F. D. Roosevelt and of Jewish-American humor, it displays Kaplan’s moral and intellectual growth, which extant commentary denies, and exhibits the “interior internationality” of an immigration country. Air Raid is one of the few achieved American radio plays to take a stand on foreign affairs in a context that does not only consist of broadcasting and Picasso’s collage-painting Guernica – the “screaming picture” which MacLeish transposed into the acoustic medium – but also of the historical saturation bombing of the Basque town.
520 $aThe inclusion of works in a canonical list creates a large body of exclusions. But among these neglected works there are not a few that nevertheless are worth reading. Literary worth is not necessarily aesthetic impeccability. A literary work recommends itself by a high degree of artistic achievement with elbowroom for historical importance. The present study focuses on Leo Rosten’s immigration novel The Education of Hyman Kaplan (1937) and Archibald MacLeish’s radio play Air Raid (1938). The first is more than the apparent compendium of language-based jokes. Read in the context of immigration policy from Presidents Theodore Roosevelt to F. D. Roosevelt and of Jewish-American humor, it displays Kaplan’s moral and intellectual growth, which extant commentary denies, and exhibits the “interior internationality” of an immigration country. Air Raid is one of the few achieved American radio plays to take a stand on foreign affairs in a context that does not only consist of broadcasting and Picasso’s collage-painting Guernica – the “screaming picture” which MacLeish transposed into the acoustic medium – but also of the historical saturation bombing of the Basque town.
540 $aCreative Commons$fby-nd/3.0/de$2cc$4http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/de
546 $aEnglish
650 7 $aLanguage$2bicssc
650 7 $aLiterature & literary studies$2bicssc
650 7 $aLiterary studies: plays & playwrights$2bicssc
650 7 $aLiterary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers$2bicssc
650 7 $aClassic fiction (pre c 1945)$2bicssc
653 $aAmerican Studies
653 $aBombing of Guernica
653 $aCondor Legion
653 $aMr. Kaplan
856 40 $awww.oapen.org$uhttps://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/3d1d0e45-2fc4-4e11-990e-9cb8a772d85a/610288.pdf$70$zOAPEN Library: download the publication
856 40 $awww.oapen.org$uhttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32562$70$zOAPEN Library: description of the publication