From continuity to contiguity : toward a new Jewish literary thinking /
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.
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
©2010.
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Collection: | Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.