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An Inch or Two of Time

Time and Space in Jewish Modernisms
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Explores the metaphorical power of time and space in Jewish modernist poetry in Hebrew and Yiddish as a response to the experience of exile and landlessness, and as a means of furthering modernism's exploration of the self and its relation to community, nation, and the world.


Contents

Acknowledgements

Appendix

Introduction: The Aesthetics of Spatiotemporality

Chapter 1: A Brief Essay on Time, Space, Nation, and Metaphor

Chapter 2: “Heymen un Reymen:” Homelandscapes, Shtetlekh, and Other Creative Spaces

Chapter 3: Temporaesthesia

Chapter 4: The Revolutionary Principles of Time and Space

Chapter 5: Enclosed in Distances: The Poetic Experiments of Yocheved Bat-Miriam

Afterword

Bibliography


“The book rewards a slow stroll through its dense pages, as Finkin brings enormous erudition in the primary and secondary sources to a patient, quiet reading of some well-known and many lesser-known texts.”

—Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, Modern Philology

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