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.
Dan Miron
From Continuity to Contiguity
Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking
From Continuity to Contiguity
Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 560 ● ISBN 9780804775021 ● File size 0.7 MB ● Publisher Stanford University Press ● Published 2010 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5207897 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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