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Dan Miron - From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking - 9780804762007 - V9780804762007
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From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking

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Description for From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking Hardback. 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. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 41. Weight in Grams: 885.

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, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
Series
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
Number of Pages
560
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804762007
SKU
V9780804762007
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About Dan Miron
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.

Reviews for From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking
"[Miron] commands an extraordinary range of literary knowledge . . . He is thus able to combine the best of the system building and specialist methods into a flexible comparative approach, where unique details from the long history of Jewish literary production open up unto a wide field of cultural interconnections."
Yael Halevi-Wise
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