Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination. An Inch or Two of Time : : Time and Space in Jewish Modernisms / / Jordan D. Finkin.

In literary modernism, time and space are sometimes transformed from organizational categories into aesthetic objects, a transformation that can open dramatic metaphorical and creative possibilities. In An Inch or Two of Time, Jordan Finkin shows how Jewish modernists of the early twentieth century...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Th e Aesthetics of Spatiotemporality
  • 1 A Brief Essay on Time, Space, Nation, and Metaphor
  • 2 “Heymen un Reymen”: Homelandscapes, Shtetlekh, and Other Creative Spaces
  • 3 Temporaesthesia
  • 4 Th e Revolutionary Principles of Time and Space
  • 5 Enclosed in Distances: Th e Poetic Experiments of Yocheved Bat-Miriam
  • Afterword
  • Appendix: Y. L. Perets, “Th e Little City” or “Th e Shtetl”
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index