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Iberian Jewish Literature : Between Al-Andalus and Christian Europe by Jonathan P. Decter (2007, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherIndiana University Press
ISBN-100253349133
ISBN-139780253349132
eBay Product ID (ePID)57045655
Product Key Features
Book TitleIberian Jewish Literature : between Al-Andalus and Christian Europe
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2007
TopicEuropean / General, Europe / Spain & Portugal, Jewish
GenreLiterary Criticism, Literary Collections, History
TypeTextbook
AuthorJonathan P. Decter
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight22.4 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2006-038451
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"This book explores Iberian Jewish attitudes toward cultural transition during the 12th and 13th centuries, when growing intolerance toward Jews in Islamic al-Andalus and the southward expansion of the Christian Reconquista led to the relocation of Jews from Islamic to Christian domains. By engaging literary topics such as imagery, structure, voice, landscape, and geography, Jonathan P. Decter traces attitudes toward transition that range from tenacious longing for the Islamic past to comfort in the Christian environment. Through comparison with Arabic and European vernacular literatures, Decter elucidates a medieval Hebrew poetics of estrangement and nostalgia, poetic responses to catastrophe, and the refraction of social issues in fictional narratives."--Joseph Haberer, Book Editor, SHOFAR , Volume 27, Number 2, Fall 2008 "Through comparison with Arabic and European vernacular literatures, Decter elucidates a medieval Hebrew poetics of estrangement and nostalgia, poetic responses to catastrophe, and the refraction of social issues in fictional narratives.Volume 27, Number 2, Fall 2008"--Joseph Haberer, Book Editor "Contextualizing Jewish-Hebrew culture in the Iberian (Islamo-Arabic and Christian-Latin-Romance) environment, Decter explores issues such as homeland and exile, identity, estrangement, nostalgia, cultural boundaries, hybridity. These issues maintain a vital dialogue with comtemporary literary criticism and cultural studies."--Tova Rosen, Tel Aviv University "[A] most welcome and unique contribution to medieval Hebrew literary studies. Its scholarship is sound, it offers excellent translations of many primary texts, and its prose is well written."--Ross Brann, Cornell University "[Decter] brings to bear a vast array of scholarship from the Arabic and Romance fields, as well as medieval Hebrew literature."--Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, Indiana University, "[A] most welcome and unique contribution to medieval Hebrew literary studies. Its scholarship is sound, it offers excellent translations of many primary texts, and its prose is well written." -- Ross Brann, Cornell University, Contextualizing Jewish-Hebrew culture in the Iberian (Islamo-Arabic and Christian-Latin-Romance) environment, Decter explores issues such as homeland and exile, identity, estrangement, nostalgia, cultural boundaries, hybridity. These issues maintain a vital dialogue with comtemporary literary criticism and cultural studies., "Contextualizing Jewish-Hebrew culture in the Iberian (Islamo-Arabic and Christian-Latin-Romance) environment, Decter explores issues such as homeland and exile, identity, estrangement, nostalgia, cultural boundaries, hybridity. These issues maintain a vital dialogue with comtemporary literary criticism and cultural studies." -- Tova Rosen, Tel Aviv University, [Decter] brings to bear a vast array of scholarship from the Arabic and Romance fields, as well as medieval Hebrew literature., "[Decter] brings to bear a vast array of scholarship from the Arabic and Romance fields, as well as medieval Hebrew literature." -Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, Indiana University, [A] most welcome and unique contribution to medieval Hebrew literary studies. Its scholarship is sound, it offers excellent translations of many primary texts, and its prose is well written., "Through comparison with Arabic and European vernacular literatures, Decter elucidates a medieval Hebrew poetics of estrangement and nostalgia, poetic responses to catastrophe, and the refraction of social issues in fictional narratives." -- Joseph Haberer, Book Editor, SHOFAR, Volume 27, Number 2, Fall 2008, "[A] most welcome and unique contribution to medieval Hebrew literary studies. Its scholarship is sound, it offers excellent translations of many primary texts, and its prose is well written." -Ross Brann, Cornell University, "Through comparison with Arabic and European vernacular literatures, Decter elucidates a medieval Hebrew poetics of estrangement and nostalgia, poetic responses to catastrophe, and the refraction of social issues in fictional narratives." -Joseph Haberer, Book Editor, SHOFAR, Volume 27, Number 2, Fall 2008, Through comparison with Arabic and European vernacular literatures, Decter elucidates a medieval Hebrew poetics of estrangement and nostalgia, poetic responses to catastrophe, and the refraction of social issues in fictional narratives., This book explores Iberian Jewish attitudes toward cultural transition during the 12th and 13th centuries, when growing intolerance toward Jews in Islamic al-Andalus and the southward expansion of the Christian Reconquista led to the relocation of Jews from Islamic to Christian domains. By engaging literary topics such as imagery, structure, voice, landscape, and geography, Jonathan P. Decter traces attitudes toward transition that range from tenacious longing for the Islamic past to comfort in the Christian environment. Through comparison with Arabic and European vernacular literatures, Decter elucidates a medieval Hebrew poetics of estrangement and nostalgia, poetic responses to catastrophe, and the refraction of social issues in fictional narratives./P>--Joseph Haberer, Book Editor"SHOFAR" (01/01/2008), "[Decter] brings to bear a vast array of scholarship from the Arabic and Romance fields, as well as medieval Hebrew literature." -- Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, Indiana University, This book explores Iberian Jewish attitudes toward cultural transition during the 12th and 13th centuries, when growing intolerance toward Jews in Islamic al-Andalus and the southward expansion of the Christian Reconquista led to the relocation of Jews from Islamic to Christian domains. By engaging literary topics such as imagery, structure, voice, landscape, and geography, Jonathan P. Decter traces attitudes toward transition that range from tenacious longing for the Islamic past to comfort in the Christian environment. Through comparison with Arabic and European vernacular literatures, Decter elucidates a medieval Hebrew poetics of estrangement and nostalgia, poetic responses to catastrophe, and the refraction of social issues in fictional narratives., "Contextualizing Jewish-Hebrew culture in the Iberian (Islamo-Arabic and Christian-Latin-Romance) environment, Decter explores issues such as homeland and exile, identity, estrangement, nostalgia, cultural boundaries, hybridity. These issues maintain a vital dialogue with comtemporary literary criticism and cultural studies." -Tova Rosen, Tel Aviv University
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal892.4/1209384
Table Of ContentPreface Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1. Poetry 1. Space: Landscape and Transition 2. Form: Varieties of Lamentation and Estrangement 3. Imagery: The Protean Garden Part 2. Narrative 4. Context: Imagining Hebrew Fiction between Arabic and European Sources 5. Structure: Literature in Transition 6. Voice: Maqama and Morality 7. Space: Landscape, Geography, and Transition Conclusion: Out of the Garden Notes Bibliography Index
SynopsisThis stimulating and graceful book explores Iberian Jewish attitudes toward cultural transition during the 12th and 13th centuries, when growing intolerance toward Jews in Islamic al-Andalus and the southward expansion of the Christian Reconquista led to the relocation of Jews from Islamic to Christian domains. By engaging literary topics such as imagery, structure, voice, landscape, and geography, Jonathan P. Decter traces attitudes toward transition that range from tenacious longing for the Islamic past to comfort in the Christian environment. Through comparison with Arabic and European vernacular literatures, Decter elucidates a medieval Hebrew poetics of estrangement and nostalgia, poetic responses to catastrophe, and the refraction of social issues in fictional narratives. Published with the generous support of the Koret Foundation.
LC Classification NumberPJ5023.D43 2007
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