Title An inch or two of time : time and space in Jewish modernisms / Jordan D. Finkin

Published University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (x, 249 pages) Series Dimyonot: Jews and the cultural imagination ; Volume 3 Dimyonot (University Park, Pa.) ; v. 3. Contents Introduction : the aesthetics of spatiotemporality -- A brief essay on time, space, nation, and metaphor -- "Heymen un Reymen": homelandscapes, shtetlekh, and other creative spaces -- Temporaesthesia -- The revolutionary principles of time and space -- Enclosed in distances : the poetic experiments of Yocheved Bat-Miriam Summary "Explores the metaphorical power of time and space in Jewish modernist poetry in Hebrew and Yiddish as a response to the experience of exile and landlessness, and as a means of furthering modernism's exploration of the self and its relation to community, nation, and the world"--Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-240) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Hebrew poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism Yiddish poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism Jewish poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism Space and time in literature. Modernism (Literature) LITERARY CRITICISM -- African. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Jewish. Hebrew poetry, Modern Jewish poetry Modernism (Literature) Space and time in literature Yiddish poetry Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780271071978 0271071974

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