Ira Nadel
Biographic Data
| ID | 3087691 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ira Nadel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ira |
| FAMILY NAME | Nadel |
| SIGNATURE | NADEL I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3219-3794 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Alphabetical Woolf
This article explores Virginia Woolf’s practice of dismantling words into individual letters and their connection to her conception and understanding of the alphabet linked to her study of Greek, the foundation of her linguistic world. Its prominence in her writing, from The Voyage Out to Between the Acts, where a barn resembles a Greek temple and English words fall apart, is fundamental to grasping Woolf’s aesthetic. Greek became, in fact, the r…
The History of Birobidzhan
Gennady Estraikh’s book is the first to explore the birth, growth, demise and afterlife of the Birobidzhan Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR). The History of Birobidzhan looks at how the shtetl was widely used in Soviet propaganda as a perfect solution to the ‘Jewish question’, arguing that in reality, while being demographically and culturally insignificant, the JAR played a key, and essentially detrimental, role in determining Jewish rights and ent…
The American Sentence”
The nature, history, and transformation of the American sentence in twentieth-century American fiction is the focus of this article, which examines the shift from the oracular to ordinary style, the contrast between James and Hemingway, or Thomas Wolfe and Cormac McCarthy. Examples of twentieth-century writers include Gertrude Stein, William Faulkner, J.D. Salinger, Thomas Pynchon, Cormac McCarthy, and Jennifer Eagan. Overlooked, the sentence rem…
The Russian Roth
This article explores the sources and application of Philip Roth’s understanding of Russian writing and culture to his fiction. It examines Russian texts he owned, the influence of select authors, and the translations of Roth’s work in Russia. It also considers Roth’s reaction to the Cold War and offers an alternate triangle of influence: not Franz Kafka/Bruno Schulz/Primo Levi but Anton Chekhov/Fyodor Dostoevsky/Isaac Babel
At the End
Beckett’s fizzles
An analysis of Beckett’s deconstruction of the short story and its impact on readers and writers. The importance of silence as an adjunct to his negative attitude towards language and its impact on the rudiments of short story writing is discussed. Supplementing the analysis is a summary of the arc of his short fictions from his earliest short story, ‘Assumption’, appearing when he was 23, to ‘Stirrings Still’, published the year before his death…
Oriental Bloomsbury
The multiple and occasionally contradictory response of Bloomsbury to the Orient is the focus of this essay which also considers the reverse: the Orient's response to Bloomsbury and the promotion of their texts in the East. From Roger Fry to G. L. Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, and Vanessa Bell, the Orient became a source of aesthetic interest and problematized politics. French Orientalism and Proust initially corroborated the experiences of Woolf in…
The Russian Woolf
Virginia Woolf and Russia has been examined but not fully studied. Entirely overlooked has been her response to Russian cinema and dance, particularly the Ballets Russes. This paper addresses that gap through an account of Woolf's response to, and interest in, both Russian film and dance, while also accounting for how she incorporates her admiration of Dostoevsky, Turgenev and other Russian writers into her work. Her study and translations with t…
White Rain
How have authors responded to 9/11? This article examines a variety of reactions in light of the need to construct a dominant narrative necessary to restore a sense of security and understanding. But no single work or group of works has so far managed to trump the tragedy, and a void remains. The phrase “white rain” expresses the blizzard of paper generated by authors attempting to make sense of the event. Authors as diverse as John Updike, Don D…
The Challenges of Resistance in 1930s Fiction
Ezra Pound in Context
Reflections on Biography (review)
Paula R. Backscheider. Reflections on Biography. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999. 289 pp. ISBN 0-19-818641-X, $30.00
The Cambridge companion to Ezra Pound
Joyce and the Jews
Journal Article JOYCE AND THE JEWS Get access Ira Bruce Nadel Ira Bruce Nadel UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 6, Issue 3, October 1986, Pages 301–310, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/6.3.301 Published: 01 October 1986
Biography & Four Master Tropes
The analysis of tropes-figures of speech-in biography reveals not only details of biographical composition but how reader response is generated in a text. Furthermore, the control of biography by tropes intensifies the literary rather than documentary aspect of such writing. A study of metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche and irony in biography uncovers the rhetorical resources of biographical form previously overlooked. In addition, the tropological d…
Apologize or Confess! The Dilemma of Victorian Autobiography
The apology and confession provide important paradigms for the practice of autobiography in the Victorian period, but their battle for supremacy-influenced by the novel-ended in a draw as the mask emerged as the late Victorian victor in autobiographical writing
A Voyage to Cochin China
G. W. Cooke and Laurence Oliphant
Joyce and the Jews
Journal Article JOYCE AND THE JEWS Get access Ira Bruce Nadel Ira Bruce Nadel UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 6, Issue 3, October 1986, Pages 301–310, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/6.3.301 Published: 01 October 1986
Biography & Four Master Tropes
The analysis of tropes-figures of speech-in biography reveals not only details of biographical composition but how reader response is generated in a text. Furthermore, the control of biography by tropes intensifies the literary rather than documentary aspect of such writing. A study of metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche and irony in biography uncovers the rhetorical resources of biographical form previously overlooked. In addition, the tropological d…
G. W. Cooke and Laurence Oliphant
A Voyage to Cochin China
Apologize or Confess! The Dilemma of Victorian Autobiography
The apology and confession provide important paradigms for the practice of autobiography in the Victorian period, but their battle for supremacy-influenced by the novel-ended in a draw as the mask emerged as the late Victorian victor in autobiographical writing
Biography & Four Master Tropes
The analysis of tropes-figures of speech-in biography reveals not only details of biographical composition but how reader response is generated in a text. Furthermore, the control of biography by tropes intensifies the literary rather than documentary aspect of such writing. A study of metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche and irony in biography uncovers the rhetorical resources of biographical form previously overlooked. In addition, the tropological d…
Joyce and the Jews
Journal Article JOYCE AND THE JEWS Get access Ira Bruce Nadel Ira Bruce Nadel UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 6, Issue 3, October 1986, Pages 301–310, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/6.3.301 Published: 01 October 1986
The Cambridge companion to Ezra Pound
Reflections on Biography (review)
Paula R. Backscheider. Reflections on Biography. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999. 289 pp. ISBN 0-19-818641-X, $30.00
Ezra Pound in Context
White Rain
How have authors responded to 9/11? This article examines a variety of reactions in light of the need to construct a dominant narrative necessary to restore a sense of security and understanding. But no single work or group of works has so far managed to trump the tragedy, and a void remains. The phrase “white rain” expresses the blizzard of paper generated by authors attempting to make sense of the event. Authors as diverse as John Updike, Don D…
The Challenges of Resistance in 1930s Fiction
Oriental Bloomsbury
The multiple and occasionally contradictory response of Bloomsbury to the Orient is the focus of this essay which also considers the reverse: the Orient's response to Bloomsbury and the promotion of their texts in the East. From Roger Fry to G. L. Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, and Vanessa Bell, the Orient became a source of aesthetic interest and problematized politics. French Orientalism and Proust initially corroborated the experiences of Woolf in…
The Russian Woolf
Virginia Woolf and Russia has been examined but not fully studied. Entirely overlooked has been her response to Russian cinema and dance, particularly the Ballets Russes. This paper addresses that gap through an account of Woolf's response to, and interest in, both Russian film and dance, while also accounting for how she incorporates her admiration of Dostoevsky, Turgenev and other Russian writers into her work. Her study and translations with t…
Beckett’s fizzles
An analysis of Beckett’s deconstruction of the short story and its impact on readers and writers. The importance of silence as an adjunct to his negative attitude towards language and its impact on the rudiments of short story writing is discussed. Supplementing the analysis is a summary of the arc of his short fictions from his earliest short story, ‘Assumption’, appearing when he was 23, to ‘Stirrings Still’, published the year before his death…
At the End
The Russian Roth
This article explores the sources and application of Philip Roth’s understanding of Russian writing and culture to his fiction. It examines Russian texts he owned, the influence of select authors, and the translations of Roth’s work in Russia. It also considers Roth’s reaction to the Cold War and offers an alternate triangle of influence: not Franz Kafka/Bruno Schulz/Primo Levi but Anton Chekhov/Fyodor Dostoevsky/Isaac Babel
The History of Birobidzhan
Gennady Estraikh’s book is the first to explore the birth, growth, demise and afterlife of the Birobidzhan Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR). The History of Birobidzhan looks at how the shtetl was widely used in Soviet propaganda as a perfect solution to the ‘Jewish question’, arguing that in reality, while being demographically and culturally insignificant, the JAR played a key, and essentially detrimental, role in determining Jewish rights and ent…
The American Sentence”
The nature, history, and transformation of the American sentence in twentieth-century American fiction is the focus of this article, which examines the shift from the oracular to ordinary style, the contrast between James and Hemingway, or Thomas Wolfe and Cormac McCarthy. Examples of twentieth-century writers include Gertrude Stein, William Faulkner, J.D. Salinger, Thomas Pynchon, Cormac McCarthy, and Jennifer Eagan. Overlooked, the sentence rem…
Alphabetical Woolf
This article explores Virginia Woolf’s practice of dismantling words into individual letters and their connection to her conception and understanding of the alphabet linked to her study of Greek, the foundation of her linguistic world. Its prominence in her writing, from The Voyage Out to Between the Acts, where a barn resembles a Greek temple and English words fall apart, is fundamental to grasping Woolf’s aesthetic. Greek became, in fact, the r…
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