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

From Continuity to Contiguity breaks away from previous attempts attempts to define a common denominator that unifies the various modern Jewish literatures by acknowledging discontinuity as the staple characteristic of modern Jewish writing.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Miron, Dan
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2010.
Series:	Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C.
Subjects:	1800-1999 Jewish literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Jewish literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Hebrew literature, Modern > History and criticism. Yiddish literature > History and criticism. TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM > General. LITERARY CRITICISM > Jewish. Hebrew literature, Modern Jewish literature Yiddish literature Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:

Prologue: Old questions : Do they deserve new answers?
The "old" Jewish literary discourse and the illusion of Israeli cultural normalcy
Modern Jewish literary thinking: the enlightenment and the advent of nationalism
The Jewish literary renaissance at the turn of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries
The inter-bellum decades: Hebrew
The inter-bellum decades: Yiddish : issues of cultural continuity in revolutionary times
Vertical and horizontal continuities and discontinuities
Dov Sadan's concept of sifrut yisrael, and why the "old" Jewish literary discourse became irrelevant
Jewish diglossias, differential and integral
Contiguity: Franz Kafka's standing within the modern Jewish literary complex
Contiguity: how Kafka and Sholem Aleichem are contiguous
Conclusion: toward a new Jewish literary thinking
Breathing through both nostrils? Shalom Yaakov Abramovitsh between Hebrew and Yiddish.

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

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