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Author:

Miron, Dan.

Title:

From continuity to contiguity : toward a new Jewish literary thinking / Dan Miron.

Publisher:

Stanford University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xiv, 543 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Jewish literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Jewish literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Hebrew literature, Modern--History and criticism.
Yiddish literature--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Prologue: Old questions : Do they deserve new answers? -- The "old" Jewish literary discourse and the illusion of Israeli cultural normalcy -- Modern Jewish literary thinking: the enlightenment and the advent of nationalism -- The Jewish literary renaissance at the turn of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries -- The inter-bellum decades: Hebrew -- The inter-bellum decades: Yiddish : issues of cultural continuity in revolutionary times -- Vertical and horizontal continuities and discontinuities -- Dov Sadan's concept of sifrut yisrael, and why the "old" Jewish literary discourse became irrelevant -- Jewish diglossias, differential and integral -- Contiguity: Franz Kafka's standing within the modern Jewish literary complex -- Contiguity: how Kafka and Sholem Aleichem are contiguous -- Conclusion: toward a new Jewish literary thinking -- Breathing through both nostrils? Shalom Yaakov Abramovitsh between Hebrew and Yiddish.

ISBN:

0804762007 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804762007 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)439210523

LCCN:

2009038331

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)