Literary passports

Pinsker, Shachar.

Literary passports the making of modernist Hebrew fiction in Europe / [electronic resource] : Shachar M. Pinsker. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2011. - xiv, 487 p. : ill., ports.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Spatializing the margins : Hebrew modernism and the urban experience -- Odessa and Warsaw : a tale of two centers? -- Homel and Lvov : the significance of the frontiers -- London : a foggy day in Whitechapel -- Vienna : "this mocking and innocent city" -- Berlin : between the Scheunenviertel and the Romanisches café -- The sexual turn in modernist fiction of fin de siècle Europe -- I am so weak and my desire is so strong : the crisis of (Jewish) masculinity -- In the house and in the gardens : erotic triangulations and homosocial desire -- Writing, masculinity and sexual desire -- Imagining the beloved : the new Jewish woman -- Old wine in new flasks : the reinvention of Jewish traditions -- In the shadow of God : the quest for new religiosity in European and Hebrew modernism -- Mysterium tremendum : the varieties of religious experience in Hebrew modernism -- Out of the depths : visions and guiding spirits -- Appendix : the meaning of Hasidism and its echoes in modern Hebrew literature (1906) / Yosef Chaim Brenner.


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2011.
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Hebrew fiction--History and criticism.--Europe--20th century
Jewish fiction--History and criticism.--Europe--20th century


Electronic books.

PJ5029 / .P56 2011eb

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