Exile
EXILE. Often prompted by historical conditions, the concept of exile appears in various religious traditions as a symbol of separation, alienation, and that which is unredeemed.
In Judaism
With ...
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While working on a carefully guarded film project in 1982, Steven Spielberg invited the versatile writer William Kotzwinkle to Hollywood. Spielberg had read and enjoyed Kotzwinkle's vivid evocation of...
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In the following essay, Schenck discusses the poetry of female modernists in terms of their state of being exiled from the political, cultural, and social mainstream.
When I first mapped out an essay ...
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In the following excerpt, Pfeiler examines the circumstances that led to the creation of a German literature in exile and comments on some of its main characteristics and figures.
The unprecedented po...
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In the following excerpt, Kamla focuses on the ideas and career of Konrad Merz, an anti-fascist novelist who left Germany to write in exile.
Konrad Merz numbers among the younger writers who made thei...
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In the following essay, Berghaus traces the contributions of noted German artists living in exile in Great Britain after 1933.
Following Hitler's appointment as Chancellor on 30 January 1933 a ...
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In the following excerpt, Tucker attempts to define the concept of exile in historical, cultural, and literary terms, comparing various exiles' notions about the theme.
Because the awareness of...
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In the following excerpt, Kennedy analyzes how Paris became for such writers as e.e. cummings, Ernest Hemingway, and Anaïs Nin a place that “inescapably reflects the creation of an exili...
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In the excerpt below, Milbauer focuses on Isaac Bashevis Singer's novel Shosha as a vehicle for the writer's commenting both on his own destiny as an exile and on the collective destiny ...
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Exile
William Kotzwinkle
