Gene Bluestein
Biographic Data
| ID | 107221 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gene Bluestein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gene |
| FAMILY NAME | Bluestein |
| SIGNATURE | BLUESTEIN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Fresno |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sex as a Literary Theme
Folk and Pop in American Culture
Anglish/Yinglish
Anglish/Yinglish: Yiddish in American Life and Literature. Gene Bluestein. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1989. 135 pages. $22.50. Get access Anglish/Yinglish: Yiddish in American Life and Literature. Gene Bluestein. Gene Bluestein. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1989. 135 pages. $22.50. Jules Chametzky Jules Chametzky University of Massachusetts at Amherst Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Go…
Moses Asch, Documentor
Even people not very familiar with the name Folkways Records have the vague recollection that it has something to do with the sound of frogs, railroad trains, or the recordings of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. The story of how Folkways was organized has become a kind of folktale for which a number of variants exist, all of them involving a meeting with Albert Einstein. Folksong collector and author Samuel Charters gives one version: thought I ha…
John Henry
How Can I Keep from Singing
The Brotherhood of Sinners
IT may have taken Watergate to remind us of a persistent motif in American thought which, despite its apparent contradiction of some cherished American values, nevertheless provides an insight into some deeply felt national sentiments. I call it literary Calvinism because it is in no sense an orthodox version of Calvinist dogma, but rather an application of two basic Calvinist tenets to a literary point of view. The results of that application go…
Laughin' Just to Keep From Cryin
Portnoy's Complaint
Despite his more recent excursions, Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint (1969) is likely to endure as his most important contribution to American literary tradi- tion. Raising in that book some themes that Jewish-American writers have not been able to deal with candidly, he explores them on a level of diction that has been equally taboo in the history of Jewish-American literature. Given the generally puritan cast of that tradition, it is not surpr…
Sing a Song of Social Significance
Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman
The Voice of the Folk
The Voice of the Folk
Constance Rourke and the Folk Sources of American Literature
Emerson's Epiphanies
Dan Emmett and the Rise of Early Negro Minstrelsy
America's Folk Instrument
The Advantages of Barbarism
The Ballad Mongers
"The Arkansas Traveler" and the Strategy of American Humor
"The Arkansas Traveler" and the Strategy of American Humor
The Advantages of Barbarism
The Ballad Mongers
America's Folk Instrument
Dan Emmett and the Rise of Early Negro Minstrelsy
Emerson's Epiphanies
Constance Rourke and the Folk Sources of American Literature
Sing a Song of Social Significance
Songs of the Sailor and Lumberman
The Voice of the Folk
The Voice of the Folk
Laughin' Just to Keep From Cryin
Portnoy's Complaint
Despite his more recent excursions, Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint (1969) is likely to endure as his most important contribution to American literary tradi- tion. Raising in that book some themes that Jewish-American writers have not been able to deal with candidly, he explores them on a level of diction that has been equally taboo in the history of Jewish-American literature. Given the generally puritan cast of that tradition, it is not surpr…
The Brotherhood of Sinners
IT may have taken Watergate to remind us of a persistent motif in American thought which, despite its apparent contradiction of some cherished American values, nevertheless provides an insight into some deeply felt national sentiments. I call it literary Calvinism because it is in no sense an orthodox version of Calvinist dogma, but rather an application of two basic Calvinist tenets to a literary point of view. The results of that application go…
How Can I Keep from Singing
John Henry
Moses Asch, Documentor
Even people not very familiar with the name Folkways Records have the vague recollection that it has something to do with the sound of frogs, railroad trains, or the recordings of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. The story of how Folkways was organized has become a kind of folktale for which a number of variants exist, all of them involving a meeting with Albert Einstein. Folksong collector and author Samuel Charters gives one version: thought I ha…
Anglish/Yinglish
Anglish/Yinglish: Yiddish in American Life and Literature. Gene Bluestein. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1989. 135 pages. $22.50. Get access Anglish/Yinglish: Yiddish in American Life and Literature. Gene Bluestein. Gene Bluestein. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1989. 135 pages. $22.50. Jules Chametzky Jules Chametzky University of Massachusetts at Amherst Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Go…
Folk and Pop in American Culture
Sex as a Literary Theme
History (15 works) · Art (14 works) · History (8 works) · Literature (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (5 works) · Library science (5 works) · Music History and Culture (4 works) · American Literature and Culture (3 works)