{"product_id":"being-for-myself-alone-9780804751575","title":"Being for Myself Alone","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a work of unprecedented scope that traces the origins of Jewish autobiographical writing from the early-modern period to the early twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is one of the most ambitious and accomplished first books I have read in some time. Marcus Moseley correctly assesses the importance of the emergence of the autobiography as a prime--though neglected--cultural index of the modernization of the Jews of Eastern Europe, and he conducts a thorough investigation of the presuppositions and implications of this assessment. . . . Throughout, one is aware of the presence of a guiding critical intelligence of a high order. . . . The book is illuminating for the reader interested in either Jewish studies or modern cultural history.\" -- Arnold Band * University of California, Los Angeles *\u003cbr\u003e\"Marcus Moseley's \u003ci\u003eBeing for Myself Alone\u003c\/i\u003e is truly engrossing. The erudition, the astonishing range of material examined and the unusual intensity of the argument combine to make the reading of this book a rare intellectual pleasure. At one level, it is novelistic, introducing us to a remarkable number of fascinating and often bizarre individuals; while at another, it is an extended and highly sophisticated scholarly essay on the theory of autobiography. What a rewarding work this is for anybody interested in the history and culture of the Jews over the last few centuries, particularly in Eastern Europe.\" -- Jonathan Frankel * Hebrew University of Jerusalem *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS...  1. AUTOBIOGRAPHY: THE ELUSIVE SUBJECT...7  \tGeneric Dilemmas...7  Rousseau's Confessions as Autobiographical Paradigm ...11  \tThe \"Children of Jean Jacques\" in Jewish Eastern Europe...19  \tIn and Around the Self: The Critical Discourse...24  2. INTERTEXTUAL RELATIONS: JEWISH AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ENCOUNTERS...58  \tAutobiography as \"Text\"\/Autobiography as \"Discourse\"...58  \tSymptoms of Transition: The Crystallization of Autobiographical Discourse...62  \tCross-Cultural Fashionings of the Sel...66  \tArrested Development: The Constitution of a Jewish Autobiographical Field...70  III. AUTOBIOGRAPHY AS READING...100  \tThe \"Tradition Model for the Study of Jewish Autobiography...100  \tSephardic Origins I: Valley and Vision: Abraham Yagel's Gei hizzayon...114  \tSephardic Origins II: \"Un coup de des n'abolira jamais le hasard\": Yehudah Aryeh \tModena's   Hayyei yehudah...135  \tEarly-Modern Autobiography in Ashkenaz I: Scrolls of Lamentation and Lament...179  Early Modern Autobiography in Ashkenaz II: The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln...187  \tThe Function of the First Person in Pre-Modern Jewish Narrative: \tAn Overview...208  IV. PRE-MODERN JEWISH AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND THE RADICAL HERMENEUTICS OF   \tMICHAH YOSEF BERDICHEVSKY...283  \tWorlds within Worlds...283  \tThe Voice of the Individual and the Burden of Inheritance: Berdichevsky's \tAutobiographical   Counter-Tradition...301  \tThe Crystallization of an Autobiographical Hermeneutic...307  \tMichah Yosef Berdichevsky Before the Speculum of Bin Gorion: The Collected Works as   \tEncylopaedia...347  \tFrom Re-Collection to Recollection: The Great Memory of Bin-Gorion...354  \tMiriam: The Summing Up...361  V. JEWISH AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITING AT THE TIME OF ROUSSEAU...413  \tSynchronicities...413  \tJacob Emden's Megillat sefer...415  \tNathan of Nemirov's Yemei maharnat...438  VI. DOMESTICATING ROUSSEAU: MORDECHAI AARON GUENZBERG'S AVIEZER...473  \t\"I am not the father of this book, rather its mother, for in pain did I bear it\"...473  \tThe Conception of the Child...484  \tGeneration and Gender: Discourses on Power...492  \tAutobiographies in Dialogue: From Aviezer to Hatt'ot ne'urim...506  VII. RAMIFICATIONS OF THE SELF: CULTURAL LANDSCAPES OF JEWISH   AUTOBIOGRAPHY...531   Autobiography against Autobiography: Traditionalist Versions of the Self...531  The Semiotics of Autobiographical Behaviour...565  \tBuried Autobiographies...574  \tSummons to Autobiography\/Response...589\t  \tMatrices of the Jewish Autobiographical Self...596  \"Time present and time past\/Are both perhaps present in time future,\/And time future contained in   time past.\"...610  \t  Notes to Chapter XX  BIBLIOGRAPHY...656  Index","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405561700695,"sku":"9780804751575","price":66.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804751575.jpg?v=1730492839","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/being-for-myself-alone-9780804751575","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}