Collinge, Patricia
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Collinge, Patricia (1894–1974), actress. The Dublin‐born performer appeared briefly in London before coming to America in 1908. Highlights of a career that spanned half a century included Bettina Dean, the stage‐struck heroine, in
The Show Shop (1914); the title part in
Pollyanna (1915), a role she played for three years; leading assignments in revivals of
Hedda Gabler (1926),
The Importance of Being Ernest (1926),
She Stoops to Conquer (1928), and
Becky Sharp (1929); the weakling Birdie in
The Little Foxes (1939); and Lavinia Penniman, the heroine's mischievous, secretive aunt, in
The Heiress (1947).
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The Centrifugal Novel: S. Y. Agnon's Poetics of Composition.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Hebrew Studies Journal; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; THE CENTRIFUGAL NOVEL: S. Y. AGNON'S POETICS OF COMPOSITION. By Stephen Katz. Pp. 219...this book announces a thorough study of manuscripts of Agnon's A Guest for the Night (Oreah Natah Lalun), in order...
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Language, absence, play; Judaism and superstructuralism in the poetics of S.Y. Agnon.(Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art)(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2009; 537 words
; ...play; Judaism and superstructuralism in the poetics of S.Y. Agnon. Hagbi, Yaniv. Syracuse U. Press 2009 234 pages...Hebrew language has not been adequately explored. Using Agnon's 'Ad hena (Thus Far), an anthology of some of his...
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Midrash and marginality: the "'Agunot" of S. Y. Agnon and Devorah Baron.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Hebrew Studies Journal; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...patrimony. Thus, for example, in Agnon's story, "[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE...story may be read as a response to Agnon's--are the central concerns of this...also devoted to those elements in Agnon's story from which Baron departs in...
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Kabbalistic feminism in Agnon's 'Betrothed.' (S.Y. Agnon)
Magazine article from: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought; 9/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...is an underlying theme in much of Agnon's work. He simultaneously developed...Shekhinah (Shoshanah in the story). But Agnon adds a strong dramatic touch to his...His aliyah was funded by Shoshanah's wealthy father, Ehrlich, but started...
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In the back yard of Agnon's house: between The Liberated Bride by A. B. Yehoshua and S. Y. Agnon.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Hebrew Studies Journal; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...lesser-known writings of the Nobel Prize winner, S. Y. Agnon. 1. IN OSWIECIM OF 1899 It is Friday night, October...2) These sentences allude, among other things, to S. Y. Agnon's renowned 1938 novel A Guest for the Night, (3) which...
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Agnon's Art of Indirection: Uncovering Latent Content in the Fiction of S.Y. Agnon.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 9/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; S. Y. Agnon (1888-1970), co-winner of the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature, occupies...security while wrestling with a shattered reality. The world as reflected in Agnon's writing proves a cunning snare which traps and eventually lays siege to...
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Agnon's kaddish: mourning for God (1).(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Shofar; 6/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] ABSTRACT. In 1947 S. Y. Agnon responded to the daily bloodshed...Wieseltier contra Agnon In response to the daily bloodshed...internationally declared State of Israel, S. Y. Agnon was moved to compose an Introduction...
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Agnon's Lonely People
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 6/23/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...23-1995 A BOOK THAT WAS LOST AND OTHER STORIES by S.Y. Agnon. New York, Schocken Books. 437 pp. $27.50 Agnon...he wrote hundreds, many of which remain unpublished. Agnon's stories explore the range of Jewish experience in the...
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Agnon, a Borgesian Invention; A Lost Lecture Resurfaces, Revealing Unknown Influences
Newspaper article from: Forward; 2/6/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...a lover of Franz Kafka's work, a vocal intellectual...read work by Shmuel Yosef Agnon, the first Hebrew writer...Borges delivered "On Sh. Y. Agnon" in 1967, approximately...a new vista into Borges's passion for Jewish letters...
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Tangled Up in Agnon's Knots Upon Knots
Newspaper article from: Forward; 6/23/1995; ; 700+ words
; Sander Gilman Forward 06-23-1995 Tangled Up in Agnon's Knots Upon Knots. After many years in which nothing...publishing season has brought us an additional volume of S.Y. Agnon's stories, edited and introduced by Alan Mintz and Anne...
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S. Y. Agnon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
S. Y. Agnon (Shmuel Yosef Agnon) , 1888-1970, Israeli...tr. To This Day , 2008), his last novel. Agnon is also acclaimed for his short stories, which...Weiss, ed. (1996), M. Roshwald (1996), and S. Katz (1999).
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Shmuel Yoseph Agnon
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...literature in 1966. On July 17, 1888, S. Y. Agnon was born Shmuel Yoseph Czaczkes...meanings of these later tales. S. Y. Agnon died on Feb. 17, 1970, and was...Nightmare: A Study in the Fiction of S. Y. Agnon (1968), a biographical as well...
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Poets Laureate and Prizes
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...Hesse 1947 André Gide 1948 T. S. Eliot 1949 William Faulkner 1950...xE7;ois Mauriac 1953 Winston S. Churchill 1954 Ernest Hemingway 1955...Sartre 1965 Mikhail Sholokhov 1966 S. Y. Agnon/ Nelly Sachs 1967 Miguel Á...
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Hebrew literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...and pioneer life in Palestine, and Salman Shneur, who wrote of the simple and uneducated Jews. The Nobel laureate S. Y. Agnon portrayed the Eastern European milieu and pioneer life in Palestine; his works have become classics in modern Hebrew...
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Nelly Sachs
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...in the apartments of death] (1947), Das Leiden Israels [Israel's suffering] (1969), and Die Suchende (1966; tr. The Seeker and Other...44; publ. 1951). Sachs shared the 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature with S. Y. Agnon.
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