An inch or two of time : time and space in Jewish modernisms

An inch or two of time : time and space in Jewish modernisms / Jordan D. Finkin.

"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"--Provid...

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Main Author: Finkin, Jordan D., 1976- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2015]
Series:Dimyonot (University Park, Pa.) ; v. 3.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Hebrew poetry, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Yiddish poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Jewish poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Space and time in literature.
Modernism (Literature)
LITERARY CRITICISM > African.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Jewish.
Hebrew poetry, Modern
Jewish poetry
Space and time in literature
Yiddish poetry
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of 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.

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