ISBN:
9780300265385
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (288 p.)
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76 b-w illus
Year of publication:
2022
Parallel Title:
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Keywords:
Jewish literature History and criticism
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Books
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Material culture
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
Abstract:
A history of modern Jewish literature that explores our enduring attachment to the book as an object With the rise of digital media, the ";death of the book" has been widely discussed. But the physical object of the book persists. Here, through the lens of materiality and objects, Barbara E. Mann tells a history of modern Jewish literature, from novels and poetry to graphic novels and artists' books. Bringing contemporary work on secularism and design in conversation with literary history, she offers a new and distinctive frame for understanding how literary genres emerge. The long twentieth century, a period of tremendous physical upheaval and geographic movement, witnessed the production of a multilingual canon of writing by Jewish authors. Literature's objecthood is felt not only in the physical qualities of books-bindings, covers, typography, illustrations-but also through the ways in which materiality itself became a practical foundation for literary expression
Note:
Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction. The Object Matter of Modern Jewish Literature
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Chapter 1. Jewish Imagism
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Chapter 2. The Little Magazine: From Font to Network
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Chapter 3. "Good to think with": The Fictional Work of Objects
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Chapter 4. Between Sefer and Bukh: Holocaust Memorial Books
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Chapter 5. From Maus to The Rabbi's Cat: The Jewish Graphic Novel
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Chapter 6. On the Seam: Artists' Books and the Unmaking of the Book
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Notes
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Credits
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Index
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In English
DOI:
10.12987/9780300265385
URL:
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