On the Margins of Modernism: Decentering Literary Dynamics by Kronfeld, Chana

On the Margins of Modernism: Decentering Literary Dynamics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520083479)

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On the Margins of Modernism: Decentering Literary Dynamics by Kronfeld, Chana

On the Margins of Modernism: Decentering Literary Dynamics

$31.95
On the Margins of Modernism: Decentering Literary Dynamics by Kronfeld, Chana

On the Margins of Modernism: Decentering Literary Dynamics

$31.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Chana Kronfeld
ISBN-10: 0520083474
ISBN-13: 9780520083479
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 11/22/1996
Pages: 275
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.95w x 0.86d
By Chana Kronfeld
By Chana Kronfeld
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Chana Kronfeld is Associate Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the coeditor of David Fogel: The Emergence of Hebrew Modernism (1993).

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