GENDER AND TEXT IN MODERN HEBREW AND YIDDISH LITERATURE

New York, Jewish Theological Seminary Of America, 1992. Item #28219

Hardcover. X, 274 pages. 24 cm. ISBN: 0674341988. CONTENTS: Jewish literatures and feminist criticism: an introduction to gender and text / Anita Norich -- "A woman's song" : the poetry of Esther Raab / Anne Lapidus Lerner -- Yocheved Bat Miriam : the poetic strength of a matronym / Ilana Pardes -- Why was there no women's poetry in Hebrew before 1920? / Dan Miron -- The eyes have it : Celia Dropkin's love poetry / Janet Hadda -- From "ikh" to "zikh" : a journey from "I" to "self" in Yiddish poems by women / Kathryn Hellerstein -- The influence of decadence on Bialik's concept of femininity / Hamutal Bar Yosef -- Tzili : female adolescence and the Holocaust in the fiction of Ahron Appelfeld / Naomi B. Sokoloff -- Oedipal narrative and its discontents : A. B. Yehoshua's Molkho (five seasons) / Anne Golomb Hoffman -- Feminism and Yiddish literature : a personal approach / Chava Rosenfarb -- On being a writer / Ruth Almog -- The song of the bats in flight / Amalia Kahana-Carmon. A range of studies is devoted to the field of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature. Here international scholars bring a diversity of approaches, perspectives, and themes to the works of women writers and to the representations of women in writing by men. SUBJECT(S) : Hebrew literature, Modern -- History and criticism -- Congresses. Women in literature -- Congresses. Women and literature -- Congresses. Feminist literary criticism -- Congresses. Yiddish literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses. Letterkunde. Hebreeuws. Jiddisch. Sekseverschillen. Feministische literatuurkritiek. Littérature hébraïque moderne -- Histoire et critique -- Congrès. Femmes -- Dans la littérature. Femmes écrivains. Littérature yiddish -- Histoire et critique -- Congrès. Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-263) and index. New Condition. (JTS1-7).

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