Rosen - Imagining Jewish art: encounters with the masters in Chagall, Guston and Kitaj

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EDITORIA L BOARD

Chairman

Professor Colin Davis, Royal Holloway, University of London

Professor Malcolm Cook, University of Exeter (French)
Professor Robin Fiddian, Wadham College, Oxford (Spanish)
Professor Paul Garner, University of Leeds (Spanish)
Professor Marian Hobson Jeanneret,
Queen Mary University of London (French)
Professor Catriona Kelly, New College, Oxford (Russian)
Professor Martin McLaughlin, Magdalen College, Oxford (Italian)
Professor Martin Maiden, Trinity College, Oxford (Linguistics)
Professor Peter Matthews, St Johns College, Cambridge (Linguistics)
Dr Stephen Parkinson, Linacre College, Oxford (Portuguese)
Professor Ritchie Robertson, St Johns College, Oxford (German)
Professor Lesley Sharpe, University of Exeter (German)
Professor David Shepherd, University of Sheffield (Russian)
Professor Michael Sheringham, All Souls College, Oxford (French)
Professor Alison Sinclair, Clare College, Cambridge (Spanish)
Professor David Treece, Kings College London (Portuguese)

Managing Editor
Dr Graham Nelson
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STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Editorial Committee
Professor Stephen Bann, University of Bristol (Chairman)
Professor Duncan Large, University of Swansea
Dr Elinor Shaffer, School of Advanced Study, London

Studies in Comparative Literature are produced in close collaboration with the British Comparative Literature Association, and range widely across comparative and theoretical topics in literary and translation studies, accommodating research at the interface between different artistic media and between the humanities and the sciences.

PUBLISHED IN THIS SERIES

Breeches and Metaphysics: Thackerays German Discourse, by S. S. Prawer

Hlderlin and the Dynamics of Translation, by Charlie Louth

Aeneas Takes the Metro: The Presence of Virgil in Twentieth-Century French Literature, by Fiona Cox

Metaphor and Materiality: German Literature and the World-View of Science 17801955, by Peter D. Smith

Marguerite Yourcenar: Reading the Visual, by Nigel Saint

Treny: The Laments of Kochanowski, translated by Adam Czerniawski and with an introduction by Donald Davie

Neither a Borrower: Forging Traditions in French, Chinese and Arabic Poetry, by Richard Serrano

The Anatomy of Laughter, edited by Toby Garfitt, Edith McMorran and Jane Taylor

Dilettantism and its Values: From Weimar Classicism to the fin de sicle, by Richard Hibbitt

The Fantastic in France and Russia in the Nineteenth Century: In Pursuit of Hesitation, by Claire Whitehead

Singing Poets: Literature and Popular Music in France and Greece, by Dimitris Papanikolaou

Wanderers Across Language: Exile in Irish and Polish Literature of the Twentieth Century, by Kinga Olszewska

Moving Scenes: The Aesthetics of German Travel Writing on England 17831830, by Alison E. Martin

Henry James and the Second Empire, by Angus Wrenn

Platonic Coleridge, by James Vigus

Imagining Jewish Art, by Aaron Rosen

Encounters with the Masters in Chagall, Guston, and Kitaj

AARON ROSEN

Studies in Comparative Literature 16
Modern Humanities Research Association and Routledge
2009

First published 2009

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