Between Exile and Return: S. Y. Agnon and the Drama of WritingThis innovative study of the modern Hebrew writer, S. Y. Agnon, offers new insight into his literary transformations of Jewish themes and sources. With particular attention to Kafka, Hoffman situates Agnon in the context of twentieth-century literature and examines such central issues in Agnon s art as the relationship of the literary text to traditions of sacred writings, the place of the book in culture, and the relationship of writing to the body. |
Contents
Like a Man Who Is Exiled From the Palace of His Father | 1 |
Comparative Agnon | 21 |
Franz Kafka and S Y Agnon | 23 |
Edmond Jabes S Y Agnon Franz Kafka | 41 |
Part II Of Writing and the Writer | 55 |
Chapter 4 Autochthon of the Book | 57 |
Chapter 5 Housing the Past in A Guest for the Night | 77 |
Three Stories | 105 |
Anatomies of Culture | 123 |
Chapter Inscription and Madness in Only Yesterday | 125 |
Gender Writing and Culture in Shira | 149 |
Toward a Conclusion | 177 |
Notes | 185 |
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Between Exile and Return: S. Y. Agnon and the Drama of Writing Anne Golomb Hoffman Limited preview - 2012 |
Between Exile and Return: S. Y. Agnon and the Drama of Writing Anne Golomb Hoffman Limited preview - 1991 |
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