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An inch or two of time : time and space in Jewish modernisms / Jordan D. Finkin.
De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Finkin, Jordan D., 1976- author.
- Series:
- Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination ; Volume 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Space and time in literature.
- Yiddish poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- Yiddish poetry.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Jewish poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- Jewish poetry.
- Hebrew poetry, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.
- Hebrew poetry, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 249 pages )
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Explores the metaphorical power of time and space in Jewish modernist poetry in Hebrew and Yiddish as a response to the experience of exile and landlessness, and as a means of furthering modernism's exploration of the self and its relation to community, nation, and the world"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the aesthetics of spatiotemporality
- A brief essay on time, space, nation, and metaphor
- "Heymen un Reymen": homelandscapes, shtetlekh, and other creative spaces
- Temporaesthesia
- The revolutionary principles of time and space
- Enclosed in distances : the poetic experiments of Yocheved Bat-Miriam.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-240) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780271071954
- 0271071958
- 9780271071978
- 0271071974
- OCLC:
- 966803592
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