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Forms of exile in Jewish literature and thought : twentieth-century Central Europe and migration to America

Title
Forms of exile in Jewish literature and thought : twentieth-century Central Europe and migration to America / Bronislava Volková.
ISBN
9781644694053
1644694050
9781644695906
1644695901
9781644694060
9781644694077
Publication
Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2021.
Copyright Notice Date
©2021
Physical Description
118 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
"Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought deals with the concept of exile on many levels-from the literal to the metaphorical. It combines analyses of predominantly Jewish authors of Central Europe of the twentieth century who are not usually connected, including Kafka, Kraus, Levi, Lustig, Wiesel, and Frankl. It follows the typical routes that exiled writers took, from East to West and later often as far as America. The concept and forms of exile are analyzed from many different points of view and great importance is devoted especially to the forms of inner exile. In Forms of Exile in Jewish Literature and Thought, Bronislava Volková, an exile herself and thus intimately familiar with the topic through her own experience, develops a unique typology of exile that will enrich the field of intellectual and literary history of twentieth-century Europe and America"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Volková, Bronislava. Forms of exile in Jewish literature and thought Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2021
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 19, 2021
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: A general history of concepts of exile
Exile as expulsion and wandering : Joseph Roth, Sholem Aleichem, Stefan Zweig
Exile as aesthetic revolt and an inward turn : Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Robert Musil, Hermann Broch
Exile as social renewal : Theodor Herzl, Max Nordau
Exile as resistance and a moral stance : Karl Kraus, Arthur Schnitzler
Exile as gender marginalization and the independence of the femme fatale : Alma Mahler
Exile as an escape from patriarchal oppression : Franz Werfel
Exile as anxiety and involuntary memory : Franz Kafka, Sigmund Freud, Marcel Proust, Bruno Schulz
Exile as doom and revenge : Hermann Ungar
Exile as a loss of identity : Saul Friedländer
Exile as abandonment : Peter Weiss
Exile as bearing witness : Elie Wiesel
Exile as dehumanization : Primo Levi
Exile as an awakening of consciousness : Jiří Weil, Ladislav Fuks, Arnošt Lustig
Exile as a feeling of meaninglessness : Egon Hostovský
Exile as transformation and a will to meaning : Viktor Frankl, Simon Wiesenthal.
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