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

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From Continuity to Contiguity breaks away from previous attempts attempts to define a common denominator that unifies the various modern Jewish literatures by acknowledging discontinuity as the staple characteristic of modern Jewish writing.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Miron, Dan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2010.
Series:Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C.
Subjects:
1800-1999
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.
Littérature juive > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature juive > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature hébraïque moderne > Histoire et critique.
Littérature yiddish > Histoire et critique.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Jewish.
Hebrew literature, Modern
Jewish literature
Yiddish literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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