“And Whatever Corner You Turn It’s Either Garbage and Dirt or a Beard and Sidelocks”: Agnon on Jews, Dirt, and Garbage.
This article examines the aesthetics of dirt in Shmuel Yosef Agnon’s writing, through the perspective of the Anthropocene. I argue that the climate crisis requires a rethinking of many aspects of human life, including the way we think about consumerism, physical objects, bodily fluids, and filth. Ag...
| Publicado en: | Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 68 - 88 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Purdue University Press
2024
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