A Rhetorical Conversation
Jewish Discourse in Modern Yiddish Literature
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2010
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-03630-4 (ISBN)
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
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Describes the role of traditional Jewish texts in the development of modern Yiddish literature, as well as the closely related development of modern Hebrew literature.
This book is about Jewish language. The fact that Jews speak and write in distinctive ways is well known. (The journalist Mike Royko called it “Hebonics.”) These forms of expression actually draw from many sources and have been employed in popular culture from Henry Roth’s Call It Sleep to the novels of Saul Bellow to contemporary television. What has received less attention is what allowed these modern forms to flow from a rich body of Yiddish literature. This book fills that gap by exploring the language of modern Yiddish literature, addressing emblematically why Jews answer a question with a question. Through a series of case studies, A Rhetorical Conversation explores various distinctive aspects of Yiddish literature to explain the nature and importance of Jewish discourse: the way of speaking, writing, arguing, and thinking developed by Yiddish culture based on prolonged and intimate contact with traditional texts.
This book is about Jewish language. The fact that Jews speak and write in distinctive ways is well known. (The journalist Mike Royko called it “Hebonics.”) These forms of expression actually draw from many sources and have been employed in popular culture from Henry Roth’s Call It Sleep to the novels of Saul Bellow to contemporary television. What has received less attention is what allowed these modern forms to flow from a rich body of Yiddish literature. This book fills that gap by exploring the language of modern Yiddish literature, addressing emblematically why Jews answer a question with a question. Through a series of case studies, A Rhetorical Conversation explores various distinctive aspects of Yiddish literature to explain the nature and importance of Jewish discourse: the way of speaking, writing, arguing, and thinking developed by Yiddish culture based on prolonged and intimate contact with traditional texts.
Jordan D. Finkin is Cowley Lecturer in Post-Biblical Hebrew at the University of Oxford.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1.The Case of the Tautological Infinitive
2.The Language of Jewish Discourse
3.Jewish Discourse and Modern Yiddish Poetry
4.Conversational Orchestration in the Tsenerene and Sholem Aleykhem
5.Y. L. Perets’s Conversational Art in Yiddish and Hebrew
Coda
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Zusatzinfo | 2 Halftones, black and white |
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Verlagsort | Pennsylvania |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 481 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-271-03630-3 / 0271036303 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-271-03630-4 / 9780271036304 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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