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Loading... From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C)by Dan Miron
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Dan Miron ?widely recognized as one of the world's leading experts on modern Jewish literatures ?begins this study by surveying and critiquing previous attempts to define a common denominator unifying the various modern Jewish literatures. He argues that these prior efforts have all been trapped by the need to see these literatures as a continuum. Miron seeks to break through this impasse by acknowledging discontinuity as the staple characteristic of modern Jewish writing. These literatures instead form a complex of independent, yet touching, components related through contiguity. From Continuity to Contiguity offers original insights into modern Hebrew, Yiddish, and other Jewish literatures, including a new interpretation of Franz Kafka's place within them and discussions of Sholem Aleichem, Sh. Y. Abramovitsh, Akhad ha'am, M. Y. Berditshevsky, Kh. N. Bialik, and Y. L. Peretz. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)809.88924Literature By Topic History, description and criticism of more than two literatures By or for groups of personsLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |