From continuity to contiguity
Subtitle: toward a new Jewish literary thinking
By: Dan Miron
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 543
ISBN-13: 9780804762007
Subjects: Jewish literature; History and criticism; Yiddish literature; Modern Hebrew literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [499]-530) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : Old questions; Do they deserve new answers?; title: The "old" Jewish literary discourse and the illusion of Israeli cultural normalcy; title: Modern Jewish literary thinking : the enlightenment and the advent of nationalism; title: The Jewish literary renaissance at the turn of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries; title: The inter-bellum decades : Hebrew; title: The inter-bellum decades : Yiddish; issues of cultural continuity in revolutionary times; title: Vertical and horizontal continuities and discontinuities; title: Dov Sadan's concept of sifrut yisrael, and why the "old" Jewish literary discourse became irrelevant; title: Jewish diglossias, differential and integral; title: Contiguity : Franz Kafka's standing within the modern Jewish literary complex; title: Contiguity : how Kafka and Sholem Aleichem are contiguous; title: Conclusion : toward a new Jewish literary thinking; title: Breathing through both nostrils? Shalom Yaakov Abramovitsh between Hebrew and Yiddish.