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

Author/creator Miron, Dan
Format Electronic
Publication InfoStanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,
Descriptionxiv, 543 p. ; 24 cm.
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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 (p. [499]-530) and index.
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LCCN 2009038331
ISBN9780804762007 (cloth : alk. paper)

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