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Paperback On the Margins of Modernism: Decentering Literary Dynamics Book

ISBN: 0520083474

ISBN13: 9780520083479

On the Margins of Modernism: Decentering Literary Dynamics

(Part of the Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society Series)

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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,...

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best book i've read on modern hebrew poetry

an excellent study of hebrew modernism as well as a fierce critique of contemporary constructions of modernism which focus mainly on "central" literary traditions.
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