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English Pages [ix], 293 [152] Year 1990
Table of contents :
Title......Page 1
Table of Contents......Page 4
First Chapter: A Cultural Biography of Der Nister......Page 6
Second Chapter: The Literary History Context......Page 19
Third Chapter: Der Nister's Experimental Period, 1907-1913......Page 30
Fourth Chapter: Gedakht and the Apogee of Der Nister's Symbolist Tale: A Structural Analysis......Page 58
Fifth Chapter: The Gedakht Tales: Der Nister's Allegorical Symbolism......Page 78
Sixth Chapter: Disintegration in the Tales, 1926-29......Page 113
Conclusion......Page 141
Bibliography......Page 144