Bruno Schulz and Galician Jewish Modernity

Underhill shows Schulz as a confirmed modernist and affirmed diasporist even when this world was collapsing around him.

List of contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Bruno Schulz and the Archaeology of Polish Jewish Modernism

1. Leading the Word Out of Its Golus: Jewish Writing in the Polish Vernacular

2. "A Creation Born of the Longing of Golus": Schulz's 'E.M. Lilien' and the Art of the Modern Jewish Book

3. The Sunday Seminars of Bruno Schulz and Debora Vogel

4. Sanatorium under the Sign of the Hourglass

5. Acculturation without Assimilation: Polish Contexts for a Translational Poetics

6. "What Have You Done with the Book?": The Scriptural Impulse from Idolatrous Iconography to Redemptive Midrash

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Karen Underhill

Summary

Underhill shows Schulz as a confirmed modernist and affirmed diasporist even when this world was collapsing around him.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Underhill
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780253057273
• ISBN: 978-0-253-05727-3
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Jews in Eastern Europe; Jews of Eastern Europe
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies