The emergence of early Yiddish literature : cultural translation in Ashkenaz /

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While much early Yiddish literature belonged to pious genres, quasi-secular genres epic, drama, and lyric also developed. Jerold C. Frakes contends that the historical context of the emergence of Yiddish literature is an essential factor in any understanding of its cultural relevance in a time and p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Frakes, Jerold C. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Levita, Elijah, 1468 or 1469-1549
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Yiddish
Publicado: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2017]
Colección:German Jewish cultures.
Temas:
Yiddish literature > History and criticism.
Littérature yiddish > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Jewish.
Yiddish literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. "Whither am i to go?" : Old Yiddish love song in a European context
  • 3. (Non- )intersecting parallel lives : Pasquino in Rome and on the Rialto
  • 4. Purim play as political action in diasporic Europe and/as ancient Persia
  • 5. Vashti and political revolution : gender politics in a topsy-turvy world
  • 6. The political liminality of Mordecai in early Ashkenaz
  • 7. Feudal bridal quest turned on Its Jewish head
  • 8. The other of another other : Yiddish epic's discarded Muslim enemy
  • 9. Conclusion
  • Appendix. Elia Levita's short poems (English translation).

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