Naomi B Sokoloff
Biographic Data
| ID | 1376275 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Naomi B Sokoloff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Naomi B |
| FAMILY NAME | Sokoloff |
| SIGNATURE | SOKOLOFF N B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cinema Studies/Jewish Studies, 2011–2013
In an era of massive university budget cuts and pervasive malaise regarding the future of the humanities, cinema and media studies continue to be a growth industry. Many academic fields have been paying increasing attention to film, in terms of both curriculum development and research. Jewish studies is no exception. Since 2011, a boom in publications has included a range of new books that deal with Jews on screen, Jewish themes in cinema, and th…
Reading for the Plot? Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America
In his study Reading for the Plot , Peter Brooks defines plot as that which “makes us read forward, seeking in the unfolding of narrative a line of intention and a portent of design that hold the promise of progress toward meaning.” Plot proves to be a rich and multifaceted concept to explore in reading Philip Roth’s novel The Plot against America (2004), in which counterfactual histories, personal plotlines, a cluster of subplots, and the reader…
Introduction
This is an exciting time for North American Jewish literature. In the past ten years, there has been an explosion of writing by new and established authors. In the field of fiction alone, the shelves have filled with titles by such fine talent as Pearl Abraham, Melvin Jules Bukiet, Michael Chabon, Nathan Englander, Myla Goldberg, Ehud Havatzelet, Dara Horn, Jonathan Safran Foer, Joan Leegant, Tova Mirvis, Jon Papernick, Jonathan Rosen, Aryeh Lev …
Israel and America
Cross-Cultural Encounters and the Literary Imagination Israel and America: Cross-Cultural Encounters and the Literary Imagination Introduction Naomi Sokoloff Naomi Sokoloff is an Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization and Chair ofthe Jewish Studies Program at the University of Washington. She is the author of Imagining the Child in Modern Jewish Fiction (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992) and has co-ed…
The Invention of Hebrew Prose
Reinventing Bruno Schulz
Bruno Schulz, the Polish Jewish author of brilliant phantasmagoria, was gunned down by a Nazi officer in the Drohobycz ghetto in 1942. He left behind a small corpus of narrative work, published in English under the titles The Street of Crocodiles and Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass. 1 Another manuscript to which he had devoted several years, The Messiah, remained unfinished. Presumably it perished in the Holocaust, for it has never bee…
Metaphor and Metonymy in Agnon's A Guest for the Night
Roman Jakobson's now classic distinction between metaphor and metonymy defines two primary modes of linguistic thought: on the one hand relations of similarity and dissimilarity, and on the other relations of contiguity or, we might say, dependence and independence. Though they find their most condensed expression in the tropes metaphor and metonymy, these same principles govern phonemic, lexical, and phraseological levels of language, and they o…
Reading for the Plot? Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America
In his study Reading for the Plot , Peter Brooks defines plot as that which “makes us read forward, seeking in the unfolding of narrative a line of intention and a portent of design that hold the promise of progress toward meaning.” Plot proves to be a rich and multifaceted concept to explore in reading Philip Roth’s novel The Plot against America (2004), in which counterfactual histories, personal plotlines, a cluster of subplots, and the reader…
Metaphor and Metonymy in Agnon's A Guest for the Night
Roman Jakobson's now classic distinction between metaphor and metonymy defines two primary modes of linguistic thought: on the one hand relations of similarity and dissimilarity, and on the other relations of contiguity or, we might say, dependence and independence. Though they find their most condensed expression in the tropes metaphor and metonymy, these same principles govern phonemic, lexical, and phraseological levels of language, and they o…
Metaphor and Metonymy in Agnon's A Guest for the Night
Roman Jakobson's now classic distinction between metaphor and metonymy defines two primary modes of linguistic thought: on the one hand relations of similarity and dissimilarity, and on the other relations of contiguity or, we might say, dependence and independence. Though they find their most condensed expression in the tropes metaphor and metonymy, these same principles govern phonemic, lexical, and phraseological levels of language, and they o…
Reinventing Bruno Schulz
Bruno Schulz, the Polish Jewish author of brilliant phantasmagoria, was gunned down by a Nazi officer in the Drohobycz ghetto in 1942. He left behind a small corpus of narrative work, published in English under the titles The Street of Crocodiles and Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass. 1 Another manuscript to which he had devoted several years, The Messiah, remained unfinished. Presumably it perished in the Holocaust, for it has never bee…
The Invention of Hebrew Prose
Israel and America
Cross-Cultural Encounters and the Literary Imagination Israel and America: Cross-Cultural Encounters and the Literary Imagination Introduction Naomi Sokoloff Naomi Sokoloff is an Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization and Chair ofthe Jewish Studies Program at the University of Washington. She is the author of Imagining the Child in Modern Jewish Fiction (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992) and has co-ed…
Reading for the Plot? Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America
In his study Reading for the Plot , Peter Brooks defines plot as that which “makes us read forward, seeking in the unfolding of narrative a line of intention and a portent of design that hold the promise of progress toward meaning.” Plot proves to be a rich and multifaceted concept to explore in reading Philip Roth’s novel The Plot against America (2004), in which counterfactual histories, personal plotlines, a cluster of subplots, and the reader…
Introduction
This is an exciting time for North American Jewish literature. In the past ten years, there has been an explosion of writing by new and established authors. In the field of fiction alone, the shelves have filled with titles by such fine talent as Pearl Abraham, Melvin Jules Bukiet, Michael Chabon, Nathan Englander, Myla Goldberg, Ehud Havatzelet, Dara Horn, Jonathan Safran Foer, Joan Leegant, Tova Mirvis, Jon Papernick, Jonathan Rosen, Aryeh Lev …
Cinema Studies/Jewish Studies, 2011–2013
In an era of massive university budget cuts and pervasive malaise regarding the future of the humanities, cinema and media studies continue to be a growth industry. Many academic fields have been paying increasing attention to film, in terms of both curriculum development and research. Jewish studies is no exception. Since 2011, a boom in publications has included a range of new books that deal with Jews on screen, Jewish themes in cinema, and th…
Art (7 works) · Literature (7 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · American Jewish Fiction Analysis (3 works) · Art history (3 works) · History (3 works) · Judaism (3 works)