On the margins of modernism : decentering literary dynamics / Chana Kronfeld.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kronfeld, Chana, author.

Series:

Contraversions (Stanford, Calif.) ; 2.

Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hebrew poetry, Modern--History and criticism.

Hebrew poetry, Modern.

Marginality, Social, in literature.

Yiddish poetry--History and criticism.

Yiddish poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 294 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Reprint 2019

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1996]

Language Note:

In English

Summary:

Modernism valorizes the marginal, the exile, the "other"--yet we tend to use writing from the most commonly read European languages (English, French, German) as examples of this marginality. Chana Kronfeld counters these dominant models of marginality by looking instead at modernist poetry written in two decentered languages, Hebrew and Yiddish. What results is a bold new model of literary dynamics, one less tied to canonical norms, less limited geographically, and less in danger of universalizing the experience of minority writers. Kronfeld examines the interpenetrations of modernist groupings through examples of Hebrew and Yiddish poetry in Europe, the U.S., and Israel. Her discussions of Amichai, Fogel, Raab, Halpern, Markish, Hofshteyn, and Sutskever will be welcomed by students of modernism in general and Hebrew and Yiddish literatures in particular.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

INTRODUCTION Minor Modernisms Beyond Deleuze and Guattari

CHAPTER 1. Modernism through the Margins From Definitions to Prototypes

CHAPTER 2. Theory / History Between Period and Genre; Or, What to Do with a Literary Trend?

CHAPTER 3. Behind the Graph and the Map Literary Historiography and the Hebrew Margins of Modernism

CHAPTER 4. Beyond Language Pangs The Possibility of Modernist Hebrew Poetry

CHAPTER 5. Theories of Allusion and Imagist Intertextuality When Iconoclasts Evoke the Bible

CHAPTER 6. Yehuda Amichai On the Boundaries of Affiliation

CHAPTER 7. David Fogel and Moyshe Leyb Halpern Liminal Moments in Hebrew and Yiddish Literary History

CHAPTER 8. The Yiddish Poem Itself Readings in Halpern, Markish, Hofshteyn, and Sutzkever

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520914131

0520914139

9780585263984

0585263981

OCLC:

1149502182