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Book SynopsisIn the past years, reflections on Jewish literatures and theoretical and methodological approaches discussed in Comparative Literature have converged. Places and Forms of Encounter in Jewish Literatures. Transfer, Mediality and Situativity brings together close readings and contextualizations of Jewish literatures with theories discussed in Comparative and World Literature Studies. The contributions are arranged in five chapters capturing central processes, actors and dynamics in the making of literatures, namely Literary Agents, Literary Figures, Writing Voids, Making of Literatures and Perceiving and Creating Languages. The volume seeks to illuminate the interrelations between literary systems, and to highlight Jewish literatures as a prism for encounters on the levels of text, discourse and culture, and their transformative force.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Olaf Terpitz and Marianne Windsperger PART 1 Literary Agents 1 “Folk-lore”, Modernism and Psychoanalysis in the Work of Isaac Bashevis Singer Aneta Stepien 2 Georg Brandes and the Transnational Vision Søren Blak Hjortshøj PART 2 Literary Figures 3 Autobiography as an Intermediary between Russian and Yiddish Literature Osip Dymov’s Vos ikh gedenk (Zikhroynes)/What I remember (Memoirs) Thomas Mikula 4 Nokhem Shtif and His Berlin Feuilletons Holger Nath 5 Literary Figures of Encounter and Transformation Ambivalences of the “Schlemiel,” the “Schelm” and the “Don Quijote” Olaf Terpitz PART 3 Writing Voids 6 Narrating the Other, Discovering the Self? Recuperations of Yugoslav Jewry in Miljenko Jergovic’s Ruta Tannenbaum Yvonne Zivkovic 7 “There Is No Need for Thriller Novels about Deportation!” The Postwar Reception and Criticism of the ‘Literature of Experience’ in Hungary Tamás Kisantal 8 Georges Perec’s Writing Space Recherche d’espace perdu Thomas Nolden PART 4 Making of Literatures 9 Surfaces of Encounter Modern Hebrew Literature and Its Readers in the Early Twentieth Century Lilah Nethanel 10 A Kulturnation in Verse Yiddish and German Folk Poetry Anthologies in the National Jewish Discourse Carmen Reichert PART 5 Perceiving and Creating Languages 11 Past Pastries. Remembering and Rewriting Judeo-Spanish Food Names in Contemporary Literatures Elisabeth Güde Index
