The Jewess Pallas Athena This Too a Theory of Modernity

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hahn, Barbara., Author.

Standardized Title:

Jüdin Pallas Athene. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Athena (Greek deity)--In literature.

Athena.

Athena (Greek deity) in literature.

German literature--History and criticism.

German literature.

Jewish women in literature.

Jewish women--Germany.

Jewish women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p. )

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2005]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""The Jewess Pallas Athena"--A line from a poem by Paul Celan. It is a provocative phrase, cutting across cultures and traditions. But it poses questions: How to reconstruct a culture that has been destroyed? How to conceive of history after the catastrophes of the twentieth century?"

"This book begins in the mid-eighteenth century with the first Jewish women to raise their voices in German. It ends two hundred years later, with another group of Jewish women looking back at a country from which they had been expelled and to which they would never want to return. Among the many prominent female intellectuals and literary figures Barbara Hahn discusses are Hannah Arendt, Gertrud Kantorowicz, Rosa Luxemburg, Else Lasker-Schuler, Margarete Susman, and Rahel Levin Varnhagen. In examining their writing, she reflects upon the question of how German culture was constructed - with its inherent patterns of exclusion."--Jacket.

Contents:

The Jewess Pallas Athena

Breaks in tradition

"Egyptian style"

The myth of the salon

"Cries into the void"

The modern jewess

Encounters at the margin

Odd beings

In search of history

Kaddish for R.L.

Baggage of debris

Thinking in a combat alliance

"Complete unreservedness"

Gestures and poems

Goddess without a name

Silence

conversation.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [211]-223) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786612696039

9780691171470

0691171475

9781282696037

1282696033

9781400826582

1400826586

OCLC:

592756170