On the Margins of Modernism

Decentering Literary Dynamics

AvChana Kronfeld

Häftad, Engelska, 1996

Del 2 i serien Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society

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Beskrivning

Modernism valorizes the marginal, the exile, the "other"--yet we tend to use writing from the most commonly read European languages (English, French, German) as examples of this marginality. Chana Kronfeld counters these dominant models of marginality by looking instead at modernist poetry written in two decentered languages, Hebrew and Yiddish. What results is a bold new model of literary dynamics, one less tied to canonical norms, less limited geographically, and less in danger of universalizing the experience of minority writers. Kronfeld examines the interpenetrations of modernist groupings through examples of Hebrew and Yiddish poetry in Europe, the U.S., and Israel. Her discussions of Amichai, Fogel, Raab, Halpern, Markish, Hofshteyn, and Sutskever will be welcomed by students of modernism in general and Hebrew and Yiddish literatures in particular.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1996-11-22
Mått:156 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt:408 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society
Antal sidor:275
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520083479

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Chana Kronfeld is Associate Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the coeditor of David Fogel: The Emergence of Hebrew Modernism (1993).

Innehållsförteckning

ACKNOWLEDGMENTSINTRODUCTION: MINOR MODERNISMS:BEYOND DELEUZE AND GUATTARIPART ONE: MODELING MODERNISM1Modernism through the Margins: From Definitions to Prototypes2Theory /History: Between Period and Genre; Or, What to Do with a Literary Trend?3Behind the Graph and the Map:Literary Historiography and the Hebrew Margins of ModernismPART TWO: STYLISTIC PROTOTYPES4Beyond Language Pangs: The Possibility of Modernist Hebrew Poetry5Theories of Allusion and Imagist Intertextuality:When Iconoclasts Evoke the Bible PART THREE: PARAGONS FROM THE PERIPHERY6Yehuda Amichai: On the Boundaries of Affiliation 7David Fogel and Moyshe Leyb Halpern: Liminal Moments in Hebrew and Yiddish Literary History 8The Yiddish Poem Itself: Readings in Halpern, Markish, Hofshteyn, and SutzkeverCONCLUSION: MARGINAL PROTOTYPES,PROTOTYPICAL MARGINSNOTESWORKS CITEDINDEX