From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture)

Miron, Dan

ISBN 10: 0804762007 / ISBN 13: 9780804762007

Published by Stanford University Press, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804762007
• ISBN 13: 9780804762007
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

Dan Miron―widely recognized as one of the world's leading experts on modern Jewish literatures―begins this study by surveying and critiquing previous attempts to define a common denominator unifying the various modern Jewish literatures. He argues that these prior efforts have all been trapped by the need to see these literatures as a continuum. Miron seeks to break through this impasse by acknowledging discontinuity as the staple characteristic of modern Jewish writing. These literatures instead form a complex of independent, yet touching, components related through contiguity. From Continuity to Contiguity offers original insights into modern Hebrew, Yiddish, and other Jewish literatures, including a new interpretation of Franz Kafka's place within them and discussions of Sholem Aleichem, Sh. Y. Abramovitsh, Akhad ha'am, M. Y. Berditshevsky, Kh. N. Bialik, and Y. L. Peretz.

About the Author

Dan Miron is Leonard Kay Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author more than thirty volumes of literary scholarship and criticism in Hebrew, Yiddish, English, German, and Russian.