On the Margins of Modernism: Decentering Literary Dynamics
(Part of the Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society Series)
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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.
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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520083474
ISBN13:9780520083479
Release Date:November 1996
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:275 Pages
Weight:1.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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best book i've read on modern hebrew poetry
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 27 years ago
an excellent study of hebrew modernism as well as a fierce critique of contemporary constructions of modernism which focus mainly on "central" literary traditions.
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