Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought - Twentieth-Century Central Europe and Migration to America

This volume deals with the concept of exile on
many levels-from the literal to the metaphorical-combining analyses of
predominantly Jewish authors of Central Europe. The concept and forms of exile
are analyzed from many different points of view and great importance is devoted
especially to forms of inner exile.

List of contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgements
Introduction: A General History of Concepts of Exile
1. Exile as Expulsion and Wandering: Joseph Roth, Sholem Aleichem, Stefan Zweig
2. Exile as Aesthetic Revolt and an Inward Turn: Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Robert Musil, Hermann Broch)
3. Exile as Social Renewal: Theodor Herzl, Max Nordau
4. Exile as Resistance and a Moral Stance: Karl Kraus, Arthur Schnitzler
5. Exile as Gender Marginalization and the Independence of the Femme Fatale: Alma Mahler
6. Exile as an Escape from Patriarchal Oppression: Franz Werfel
7. Exile as Anxiety and Involuntary Memory: Franz Kafka, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, Bruno Schulz
8. Exile as Doom and Revenge: Hermann Ungar
9. Exile as a Loss of Identity: Saul Friedländer
10. Exile as Abandonment: Peter Weiss
11. Exile as Bearing Witness: Elie Wiesel
12. Exile as Dehumanization: Primo Levi
13. Exile as an Awakening of Consciousness: Ji¿í Weil, Ladislav Fuks, Arnošt Lustig
14. Exile as a Feeling of Meaninglessness: Egon Hostovský
15. Exile as Transformation and a Will to Meaning: Viktor Frankl, Simon Wiesenthal
Conclusion
Bibliography

About the author

Bronislava Volková is a bilingual poet, semiotician, translator, collagist, essayist and Professor Emerita of Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, where she was a Director of the Czech Program at the Slavic Department for thirty years. She is a member of the Czech and American PEN Club. She went into exile in 1974, taught at the Universities of Cologne and Marburg and subsequently at Harvard University and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. She has published eleven books of existential and metaphysical poetry in Czech and seven bilingual editions illustrated with her own collages. She is also the author of two books on linguistic and literary semiotics, Emotive Signs in Language (John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 1987) and A Feminist's Semiotic Odyssey through Czech Literature (Edwin Mellen Press, N.Y., 1997), as well as the leading co-author of a large anthology of Czech poetry translations, Up The Devil's Back: A Bilingual Anthology of 20th Century Czech Poetry (with Clarice Cloutier, Slavica Publishers, 2008). Her scholarly publications include topics of Czech poetry, Czech popular culture, issues of exile, gender, implied author values and emotive signs. Her poetry has been translated into twelve languages and her selected poems appeared in book form in six of them. She has also received a number of literary and cultural awards.

Summary

Deals with the concept of exile on many levels - from the literal to the metaphorical. The book combines analyses of predominantly Jewish authors of Central Europe of the twentieth century who are not usually connected, including Kafka, Kraus, Levi, Lustig, Wiesel, and Frankl.

Product details

Authors	Bronislava Volkova, Bronislava Volková
Publisher	Ingram Publishers Services
Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	31.07.2021
EAN	9781644694053
ISBN	978-1-64469-405-3
No. of pages	120
Dimensions	156 mm x 234 mm x 13 mm
Weight	340 g
Subjects	Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Jewish Studies, History: specific events and topics, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict, Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict, Political oppression & persecution, Political oppression and persecution, Violence, intolerance and persecution in history, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust

Product details

• Authors: Bronislava Volkova, Bronislava Volková
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781644694053
• ISBN: 978-1-64469-405-3
• No. of pages: 120
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 340 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Jewish Studies, History: specific events and topics, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict, Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict, Political oppression & persecution, Political oppression and persecution, Violence, intolerance and persecution in history, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust