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Dan Miron--widely recognized as one of the world's leading experts on modern Jewish literatures--begins this study by surveying and critiquing previous attempts to define a common denominator unifying the various modern Jewish literatures. He argues that these prior efforts have all been trapped by the need to see these literatures as a continuum. Miron seeks to break through this impasse by acknowledging discontinuity as the staple characteristic of modern Jewish writing. These literatures instead form a complex of independent, yet touching, components related through contiguity. "From Continuity to Contiguity" offers original insights into modern Hebrew, Yiddish, and other Jewish literatures, including a new interpretation of Franz Kafka's place within them and discussions of Sholem Aleichem, Sh. Y. Abramovitsh, Akhad ha'am, M. Y. Berditshevsky, Kh. N. Bialik, and Y. L. Peretz.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism

• Full title: From Continuity to Contiguity
• Subtitle: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking
• Author: Dan Miron
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 560
• EAN: 9780804762007
• ISBN: 0804762007
• ID: 04718677
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 885 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 41 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. July 2010

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