{"product_id":"kabbalah-and-literature-kitty-millet-9781501379611","title":"Kabbalah and Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFocuses on a range of Jewish and non-Jewish\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ewriters to examine the intersection of Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition, and secular Jewish literatures.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eKabbalah and Literature\u003c\/i\u003e shows how the Jewish mystical tradition contributes to the renewal of literature in a modern, global, and increasingly disconnected age. Kitty Millet explores Kabbalah's conceptual underpinnings, aesthetic principles, tenets, and signifiers to demonstrate how literature's absorption of kabbalistic material has altered its ontology, function, and the tasks it sets for itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Reading writers from Europe and the Americas, Kitty Millet maps how the kabbalist's desire to \"recover Eden\" transforms into a latent messianic drive only intuitable through text. Thus it charts a journey of sorts, a migration of Jewish mystical material embedded surreptitiously within text in order to shift ever so slightly at times the range of the literary to encompass an aesthetic vision not easily reducible to the literal, the known, the allegorical, or even the philosophical. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this way, \u003ci\u003eKabbalah and Literature\u003c\/i\u003e proposes a novel, intuitive approach, shifting focus away from the Jewish text's epistemological elements to embrace its \"secrets.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kitty Millet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501379615\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501379611\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/21\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Kitty Millet","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46173211295999,"sku":"9781501379611","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ccd49925-9956-463b-8ae8-f564998a5635.jpg?v=1727180315","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/kabbalah-and-literature-kitty-millet-9781501379611","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}