The Object of Jewish Literature: A Material History - Hardcover

Mann, Barbara E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300234112 ISBN 13: 9780300234114

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2022

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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.

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Barbara E. Mann is professor of cultural studies and Hebrew literature and the Chana Kekst Professor of Jewish Literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary. She is the author of Space and Place in Jewish Studies.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0300234112
• ISBN 13: 9780300234114
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 280
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