From Continuity to Contiguity - Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking

Zusatztext "This is a truly outstanding work of literary criticism that will set up a new agenda for the discussion of Jewish literature. The distillation of many years of his work, this book is genuine Miron, with his encyclopedic erudition, sharp intellect, and powerful conceptual synthesis." Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext "From Continuity to Contiguity" breaks away from previous attempts attempts to define a common denominator that unifies the various modern Jewish literatures by acknowledging discontinuity as the staple characteristic of modern Jewish writing. Zusammenfassung From Continuity to Contiguity breaks away from previous attempts attempts to define a common denominator that unifies the various modern Jewish literatures by acknowledging discontinuity as the staple characteristic of modern Jewish writing.

Product details

• Authors: Dan Miron
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.07.2010
• EAN: 9780804762007
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-6200-7
• No. of pages: 560
• 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 > Other languages / Other literatures