MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2009038331
003 DLC
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008 090915s2010 cau b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2009038331
020 $a9780804762007 (cloth : alk. paper)
040 $aCSt/DLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPN842$b.M57 2010
082 00 $a809/.88924$222
100 1 $aMiron, Dan.
245 10 $aFrom continuity to contiguity :$btoward a new Jewish literary thinking /$cDan Miron.
260 $aStanford, Calif. :$bStanford University Press,$cc2010.
300 $axiv, 543 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [499]-530) and index.
505 0 $aPrologue : 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.
650 0 $aJewish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aJewish literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aHebrew literature, Modern$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aYiddish literature$xHistory and criticism.