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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miron, Dan.

Series:

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Jewish literature.

Jewish literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Hebrew literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Hebrew literature, Modern.

Yiddish literature--History and criticism.

Yiddish literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (559 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration

1. Prologue: Old Questions; Do They Deserve New Answers?

2. The “Old” Jewish Literary Discourse and the Illusion of Israeli Cultural Normalcy

3. Modern Jewish Literary Thinking: The Enlightenment and the Advent of Nationalism

4. The Jewish Literary Renaissance at the Turn of the Nineteenth and the Beginning of the Twentieth Centuries

5. The Inter-Bellum Decades: Hebrew

6. The Inter-Bellum Decades: Yiddish; Issues of Cultural Continuity in Revolutionary Times

7. Vertical and Horizontal Continuities and Discontinuities

8. Dov Sadan’s Concept of Sifrut Yisra’el, and Why the “Old” Jewish Literary Discourse Became Irrelevant

9. Jewish Diglossias—Differential and Integral

10. Contiguity: Franz Kafka’s Standing Within the Modern Jewish Literary Complex

11. Contiguity: How Kafka and Sholem Aleichem Are Contiguous

12. Conclusion: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking

Breathing Through Both Nostrils? Shalom Ya’akov Abramovitsh Between Hebrew and Yiddish

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804775021

0804775028

OCLC:

669514907