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Rhetorical Conversation:

Jewish Discourse in Modern Yiddish Literature
  • ISBN-13: 9780271035376
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Jordan D. Finkin
  • Price: AUD $69.99
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  • Local release date: 11/03/2010
  • Format: Paperback 216 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Cultural studies [JFC]
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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.


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


“A learned, sophisticated, and smart book. Its exploration of the complex interrelationship between elite conversational discourse and its transition and transformation in the mouths, minds, and words of others is vital for a more nuanced understanding of Yiddish, its speakers, and its writers.”

—Jeremy Dauber, Columbia University

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