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Shachar M. Pinsker - Literary Passports - 9780804770644 - V9780804770644
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Literary Passports

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Description for Literary Passports Hardback. Literary Passports is the first book to explore Hebrew modernist fiction in Europe in the early decades of the twentieth century. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 504 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 2CSJ; DSB; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 36. Weight in Grams: 798.

Literary Passports is the first book to explore modernist Hebrew fiction in Europe in the early decades of the twentieth century. It not only serves as an introduction to this important body of literature, but also acts as a major revisionist statement, freeing this literature from a Zionist-nationalist narrative and viewing it through the wider lens of new comparative studies in modernism. The book's central claim is that modernist Hebrew prose-fiction, as it emerged from 1900 to 1930, was shaped by the highly charged encounter of traditionally educated Jews with the revolution of European literature and culture known as modernism.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
Series
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
Number of Pages
504
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804770644
SKU
V9780804770644
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About Shachar M. Pinsker
Shachar M. Pinsker is Associate Professor of Hebrew Literature and Culture at the University of Michigan. He is the co-editor of Hebrew, Gender and Modernity: Critical Responses to Dvora Baron's Fiction (2007).

Reviews for Literary Passports
"Literary Passports: The Making of Modernist Hebrew Fiction in Europe is a deft and dense analysis of one of the most important aspects of modern Hebrew literary history-the modernist Hebrew republic of letters in Europe . . . Pinsker is largely successful in his argument and his analyses. Because of their depth and sensitivity, his readings deserve to be part ... Read more

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