Between Exile and Return

Between Exile and Return
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Publisher : SUNY Press
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 0791405419
ISBN-13 : 9780791405413
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Book Synopsis Between Exile and Return by : Anne Golomb Hoffman

Download or read book Between Exile and Return written by Anne Golomb Hoffman and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1991-03-21 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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.


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