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Nathan Englander’s The Ministry of Special Cases as Jewish-American Anachronotope

Nathan Englander’s The Ministry of Special Cases as Jewish-American Anachronotope

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Nathan Englander’s The Ministry of Special Cases as Jewish-American Anachronotope

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Nathan Englander’s The Ministry of Special Cases as Jewish-American Anachronotope

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Pennsylvania State University Press

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Studies in American Jewish literature (1981), 2019, Vol.38 (1), p.1-22

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English

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Pennsylvania State University Press

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The primary goal of this essay is to introduce and situate the “anachronotope.” The anachronotope is an inversion of Mikhail Bakhtin’s “chronotope” (literally, “timespace”), which describes the fundamentally symbiotic and inextricable relations between time, space, and narrative in the novel. The anachronotope describes a novelistic condition in wh...

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Nathan Englander’s The Ministry of Special Cases as Jewish-American Anachronotope

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TN_cdi_crossref_primary_10_5325_studamerjewilite_38_1_001

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_crossref_primary_10_5325_studamerjewilite_38_1_001

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0271-9274

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1948-5077

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10.5325/studamerjewilite.38.1.001

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