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

Author/creator Miron, Dan
Format Book
Publication InfoStanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2010.
Descriptionxiv, 543 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
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.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009038331
ISBN9780804762007 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0804762007 (cloth : alk. paper)

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