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Between Exile and Return: S. Y. Agnon and the Drama of Writing

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Anne Golomb Hoffman
1991
Published by: State University of New York Press
Series: SUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
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This innovative study of the modern Hebrew writer, S. Y. Agnon, offers new insight into his literary transformations of Jewish themes and sources. With particular attention to Kafka, Hoffman situates Agnon in the context of twentieth-century literature and examines such central issues in Agnon’s art as the relationship of the literary text to traditions of sacred writings, the place of the book in culture, and the relationship of writing to the body.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Title Page, Copyright, Dedication

pp. iii-v

Contents

pp. vii

Acknowledgments

pp. ix

1. Introduction: "Like a Man Who Is Exiled From the Palace of His Father"

pp. 1-20

Part I: Comparative Agnon

2. Scribal Fictions: Franz Kafka and S. Y Agnon

pp. 23-39

3. Dramas of Signification: Edmond Jabes, S. Y. Agnon, Franz Kafka

pp. 41-54

Part II: Of Writing and the Writer

4. Autochthon of the Book

pp. 57-75

5. Housing the Past in A Guest for the Night

pp. 77-103

6. Inclusion and Exclusion: Three Stories

pp. 105-122

Part III: Anatomies of Culture

7. Inscription and Madness in Only Yesterday

pp. 125-148

8. The Wound and the Book: Gender, Writing and Culture in Shira

pp. 149-176

9. "A Sanctioned Babel": Toward a Conclusion

pp. 177-183

Notes

pp. 185-207

References

pp. 209-224

Index [Includes Back Cover]

pp. 225-236
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