Finkin, J: Rhetorical Conversation Jewish Discourse in Modern Yiddish Literature
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Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
25.01.2010
Verlag
Pennsylvania St Univ PrSeitenzahl
216
Maße (L/B/H)
23.5/16/2.3 cm
Gewicht
464 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-271-03630-4
This book is about Jewish language. The fact that Jews speak and write in distinctive ways is well known. (The journalist Mike Royko called it "Hebonics.") These forms of expression actually draw from many sources and have been employed in popular culture from Henry Roth's Call It Sleep to the novels of Saul Bellow to contemporary television. What has received less attention is what allowed these modern forms to flow from a rich body of Yiddish literature. This book fills that gap by exploring the language of modern Yiddish literature, addressing emblematically why Jews answer a question with a question. Through a series of case studies, A Rhetorical Conversation explores various distinctive aspects of Yiddish literature to explain the nature and importance of Jewish discourse: the way of speaking, writing, arguing, and thinking developed by Yiddish culture based on prolonged and intimate contact with traditional texts.
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