How Strange the Change - Language, Temporality, and Narrative Form in Peripheral Modernisms

Zusatztext "A masterpiece in comparative literature that will quickly establish itself as a classic in both Yiddish and African literary studies." Informationen zum Autor Marc Caplan is the Zelda and Myer Tandetnik Professor of Yiddish Literature, Language, and Culture in the Department of German and Romance Languages of the Johns Hopkins University. Klappentext This is a revolutionary work in the study of Yiddish literature and post-colonial theory, offering a new methodology for comparative research, a new definition of literary modernism, and an unprecedented juxtaposition of Jewish Studies with African literature. Zusammenfassung This is a revolutionary work in the study of Yiddish literature and post-colonial theory, offering a new methodology for comparative research, a new definition of literary modernism, and an unprecedented juxtaposition of Jewish Studies with African literature.

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• Authors: Marc Caplan, Caplan Marc
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.09.2011
• EAN: 9780804774765
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-7476-5
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture; Stanford Studies in Jewish His; Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture; Stanford Studies in Jewish His
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > German linguistics / literary studies