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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495873503321

Autore

Kronfeld Chana

Titolo

On the margins of modernism : decentering literary dynamics / / Chana Kronfeld

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [1996]

©1996

ISBN

0-520-91413-9

0-585-26398-1

Edizione

[Reprint 2019]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 294 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society ; ; 2

Disciplina

892.41091

Soggetti

Hebrew poetry, Modern - History and criticism

Marginality, Social, in literature

Yiddish poetry - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION Minor Modernisms Beyond Deleuze and Guattari -- CHAPTER 1. Modernism through the Margins From Definitions to Prototypes -- CHAPTER 2. Theory / History Between Period and Genre; Or, What to Do with a Literary Trend? -- CHAPTER 3. Behind the Graph and the Map Literary Historiography and the Hebrew Margins of Modernism -- CHAPTER 4. Beyond Language Pangs The Possibility of Modernist Hebrew Poetry -- CHAPTER 5. Theories of Allusion and Imagist Intertextuality When Iconoclasts Evoke the Bible -- CHAPTER 6. Yehuda Amichai On the Boundaries of Affiliation -- CHAPTER 7. David Fogel and Moyshe Leyb Halpern Liminal Moments in Hebrew and Yiddish Literary History -- CHAPTER 8. The Yiddish Poem Itself Readings in Halpern, Markish, Hofshteyn, and Sutzkever -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.