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1 online resource (xiv, 397 pages) : 1 map |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-378) and index. |
| Summary |
"The Elsewhere." Or, midbar-biblical Hebrew for both "wilderness" and "speech." A place of possession and dispossession, loss and nostalgia. But also a place that speaks. Ingeniously using a Talmudic interpretive formula about the disposition of boundaries, Newton explores narratives of "place, flight, border, and beyond." The writers of The Elsewhere are a disparate company of twentieth-century memoirists and fabulists from the Levant (Palestine/Israel, Egypt) and East Central Europe. Together, their texts-cunningly paired so as to speak to one another in mutually revelatory ways-narrate the paradox of the "near distance."--Publisher description. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Sta Viator -- 1. Place from place, and place from flight : W.G. Sebald's The emigrants and Aharon Appelfeld's The iron tracks -- 2. Flight from flight, and flight from border : Witold Gombrowicz's Diary and A kind of testament and essays and short fiction by Bruno Schulz -- 3. Border from border : Elias Canetti's The tongue set free and The voices of Marrakesh and Gregor von Rezzori's The snows of yesteryear -- 4. Border from beyond : Andre Aciman's Out of Egypt and Edward Said's Out of place -- 5. Beyond from beyond : Dan Pagis's Abba and Anton Shammas's Arabesques. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
European literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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European literature. |
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20th century |
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Setting (Literature)
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Setting (Literature) |
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Travel in literature.
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Travel in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Newton, Adam Zachary. Elsewhere. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2005 0299208907 (DLC) 2004025637 (OCoLC)57003771 |
| ISBN |
0299208931 (electronic book) |
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9780299208936 (electronic book) |
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0299208907 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780299208905 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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