Writing Plague

Download Writing Plague full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Writing Plague ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Writing Plague

Writing Plague
Author :
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages : 273
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781512822885
ISBN-13 : 1512822884
Rating : 4/5 (884 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Writing Plague by : Susan L. Einbinder

Download or read book Writing Plague written by Susan L. Einbinder and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wave of plague swept the cities of northern Italy in 1630–31, ravaging Christian and Jewish communities alike. In Writing Plague Susan L. Einbinder explores the Hebrew texts that lay witness to the event. These Jewish sources on the Great Italian Plague have never been treated together as a group, Einbinder observes, but they can contribute to a bigger picture of this major outbreak and how it affected people, institutions, and beliefs; how individuals and institutions responded; and how they did or did not try to remember and memorialize it. High self-consciousness characterizes many of the authorial voices, and the sophisticated and deliberate ways these authors represented themselves reveal a complex process of self-fashioning that equally contours the representation and meaning of plague. Conversely, it is under the strain of plague that conventions of self-fashioning come to the fore. In the end, what proves most striking is how quickly these accounts retreated into obscurity. Why was this plague, which was among the most documented of all outbreaks since the Black Death of the fourteenth century, ultimately consigned to silence in Jewish memory? Did the memory take shape outside the written or material remains that we typically consult, in ephemeral forms that were lost over time? How much were the official genres of commemoration responsible for the erosion of historical particularity? How much did these conventionalized forms of mourning help individuals find language for private experience? And how, conversely, was private experience reconfigured to signify public grief? Throughout Writing Plague, Einbinder unearths and analyzes a cluster of little-known texts, reading them as much for the things about which they remain silent as for the things they seem openly to express. It is a compelling hybrid work of literary criticism and historical reflection about premodern constructions of self and community.


Writing Plague Related Books

Writing Plague
Language: en
Pages: 273
Authors: Susan L. Einbinder
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-10-11 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A wave of plague swept the cities of northern Italy in 1630–31, ravaging Christian and Jewish communities alike. In Writing Plague Susan L. Einbinder explores
Plague Writing in Early Modern England
Language: en
Pages: 309
Authors: Ernest B. Gilman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-08-01 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

During the seventeenth century, England was beset by three epidemics of the bubonic plague, each outbreak claiming between a quarter and a third of the populati
Writing Plague
Language: en
Pages: 279
Authors: Alfred Thomas
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-04-22 - Publisher: Springer Nature

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to “plague writing” from the later Midd
The Plague in Print
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Rebecca Totaro
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Although we are currently bombarded with numerous health scares--AIDS, West Nile virus, avian flu, and the recent swine flu, just to name a few that now fill ou
Between Black Death and Red Plague
Language: en
Pages: 110
Authors: Maria Szubert
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-11-27 - Publisher: Lulu.com

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This short book captures Maria Szubert's reminiscences of the Second World War and life under communism in Poland. It offers a revealing snapshot of the terror