Midrash and marginality: the "'Agunot" of S. Y. Agnon and Devorah Baron.(Critical essay)

Hebrew Studies Journal | January 1, 2001| | Copyright

If intertextuality, the evocation and activation of earlier texts within a given text, is a general condition of all literature, radical intertextuality, in which the earlier text is not only engaged but ironized or undermined, is particularly characteristic of modern Hebrew belletristic writing. During the renascence of Hebrew literature in the first decades of the last century, writers mined the cultural legacy for materials whereby to construct a modern language and literature. This collective endeavor generated authorial "conversations" around the Jewish cultural ...

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