{"title":"The Diasporist Unpacks: The Epigonic Rummagings of R.B. Kitaj","authors":"A. Rosen","doi":"10.2143/SR.40.0.2028848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/SR.40.0.2028848","url":null,"abstract":"HIS rumpled, HAIR TOUSLED a collector MADLY, stoops and excitedly his fusty to garments inspect his bunched books. The and rumpled, a collector stoops excitedly to inspect his books. The eccentric bibliophile in this painted scene is the artist himself, R.B. Kitaj (b.1932), and the painting Unpacking My Library from 1990/1991 captures a common practice for the peripatetic artist. Tm always unpacking my library like that,' muses the painter, ť[a]lways packing part of it up and unpacking sometimes years later, thrilled with forgotten treasures and surprises.1 At times, Kitaj s library has explicitly provided the imagery for his works, as in 1969 when he created In Our Time: Covers for a Small Library After the Life for the Most Part , a series of fifty screen prints taken from photos of his own worn and dog-eared texts. More often, Kitaj s library is the absent presence in his works, supplying the loose weave of literary allusions which connects the artists oeuvre . Since his early career Kitaj has found that 'books are for me what trees are for a landscape painter. They inspire.'2 Not only have books inspired Kitaj to paint, they also seem to have stimulated his desire to write. For the past two decades Kitaj has increasingly penned what he calls explanatory prefaces' to his paintings, intended to accompany his works both on exhibition and in publication. Kitaj keeps the volumes of Adin Steinsaltzs Talmud translation stacked beside the easel in his studio and in recent years he has come to","PeriodicalId":53197,"journal":{"name":"STUDIA ROSENTHALIANA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2008-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80436232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Poetry in the Margin","authors":"A. V. D. Heide","doi":"10.2143/SR.40.0.2028840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/SR.40.0.2028840","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53197,"journal":{"name":"STUDIA ROSENTHALIANA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2008-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90768340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Epigones and the Formation of New Literary Canons","authors":"S. Berger, I. Zwiep","doi":"10.2143/SR.40.0.2028841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/SR.40.0.2028841","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53197,"journal":{"name":"STUDIA ROSENTHALIANA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2008-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80801099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shem-Tov Falaquera, a Paragon of an Epigone, and the Epigone's Importance for the Study of Jewish Intellectual History","authors":"S. Harvey","doi":"10.2143/SR.40.0.2028836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/SR.40.0.2028836","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53197,"journal":{"name":"STUDIA ROSENTHALIANA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2008-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85375185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Medieval opinions on the Spanish school of Hebrew poetry and its epigones","authors":"A. Schippers","doi":"10.2143/SR.40.0.2028839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/SR.40.0.2028839","url":null,"abstract":"Since Solomon Ibn Gabirol left the world and Moses Ibn Ezra, Jehudah Halevi, and Abraham Ibn Ezra died, the well of poetry has dried up, inspiration has disappeared, and God’s spirit no longer manifests itself. None of their successors can compare with them. We backward ones, like beggars, gather the crumbs and refuse that have fallen from their table. We hasten day and night over the ways trodden by them, but we cannot equal them.1","PeriodicalId":53197,"journal":{"name":"STUDIA ROSENTHALIANA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2008-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85801708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"We Drink only from the Master's Water","authors":"J. Robinson","doi":"10.2143/SR.40.0.2028835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/SR.40.0.2028835","url":null,"abstract":"Everything I interpret in the way of wisdom, I interpret only according to what [Maimonides’] opinion would be in these things, in accordance with what is revealed in his books. I drink from his water and make others drink [cf. Hag. 3a-b]. Everything comes from the ‘fruit of the righteous’ [see Prov. 11:30] and his good ‘work’. It itself is ‘life’ and causes ‘life’, continuously and forever. [Samuel Ibn Tibbon, preface to his Commentary on Ecclesiastes]1","PeriodicalId":53197,"journal":{"name":"STUDIA ROSENTHALIANA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2008-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84555825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Epigonism after Abramovitsh and Bialik","authors":"Ken Frieden","doi":"10.2143/SR.40.0.2028842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2143/SR.40.0.2028842","url":null,"abstract":"WHO prose? ARE The THE great ORIGINALS original and was the S.Y. epigones Abramovitsh, in modern according Hebrew prose? The great original was S.Y. Abramovitsh, according to H.N. Bialik and a century of impassioned literary reception. Abramovitsh wrote half a dozen Hebrew stories from 1886 to 1896 and subsequently translated his Yiddish novels into Hebrew. Ever since, many critics and teachers have repeated the notion that these Hebrew texts dominated the so-called revival of Hebrew literature. On the occasion of S.Y. Abramovitshs seventy-fifth birthday, Bialik celebrated his accomplishments in Hebrew by crowning him 'the creator of the nusah' Bialik s extravagant praise suggests that Abramovitsh (whom he calls Mendele) is the true original, and after him modern Hebrew writers could scarcely hope to be more than his epigones. This simplistic and overstated theory of the nusah found supporters throughout the twentieth century. Even today, some critics write as if the main line of modern Hebrew literature connects Abramovitsh and Bialik through S.Y. Agnon, or through an ů-nusah authors such as Y.H. Brenner to the present. Following Bialik, many twentieth-century writers saw the nusah as a decisive influence, although they often tried to avoid its commonplaces and probably did not want to be perceived as epigones. In order to escape from this one-sided version of literary his-","PeriodicalId":53197,"journal":{"name":"STUDIA ROSENTHALIANA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2008-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89260367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}