Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought : : Twentieth-Century Central Europe and Migration to America /

Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought : : Twentieth-Century Central Europe and Migration to America / / Bronislava Volková.

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Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought deals with the concept of exile on many levels-from the literal to the metaphorical. It combines analyses of predominantly Jewish authors of Central Europe of the twentieth century who are not usually connected, including Kafka, Kraus, Levi, Lustig, Wi...

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Place / Publishing House:Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press,, [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (120 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: A General History of Concepts of Exile
  • 1. Exile as Expulsion and Wandering: Joseph Roth, Sholem Aleichem, Stefan Zweig
  • 2. Exile as Aesthetic Revolt and an Inward Turn: Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Robert Musil, Hermann Broch
  • 3. Exile as Social Renewal: Theodor Herzl, Max Nordau
  • 4. Exile as Resistance and a Moral Stance: Karl Kraus, Arthur Schnitzler
  • 5. Exile as Gender Marginalization and the Independence of the Femme Fatale: Alma Mahler
  • 6. Exile as an Escape from Patriarchal Oppression: Franz Werfel
  • 7. Exile as Anxiety and Involuntary Memory: Franz Kafka, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, Bruno Schulz
  • 8. Exile as Doom and Revenge: Hermann Ungar
  • 9. Exile as a Loss of Identity: Saul Friedländer
  • 10. Exile as Abandonment: Peter Weiss
  • 11. Exile as Bearing Witness: Elie Wiesel
  • 12. Exile as Dehumanization: Primo Levi
  • 13. Exile as an Awakening of Consciousness: Jiří Weil, Ladislav Fuks, Arnošt Lustig
  • 14. Exile as a Feeling of Meaninglessness: Egon Hostovský
  • 15. Exile as Transformation and a Will to Meaning: Viktor Frankl, Simon Wiesenthal
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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