Kabbalah and Literature

<p><b>Focuses on a range of Jewish and non-Jewish</b> <b>writers to examine the intersection of Kabbalah the Jewish mystical tradition and secular Jewish literatures.</b> <p/><i>Kabbalah and Literature</i> shows how the Jewish mystical tradition contributes to the renewal of literature in a modern global and increasingly disconnected age. Kitty Millet explores Kabbalah's conceptual underpinnings aesthetic principles tenets and signifiers to demonstrate how literature's absorption of kabbalistic material has altered its ontology function and the tasks it sets for itself. <p/> Reading writers from Europe and the Americas Kitty Millet maps how the kabbalist's desire to recover Eden transforms into a latent messianic drive only intuitable through text. Thus it charts a journey of sorts a migration of Jewish mystical material embedded surreptitiously within text in order to shift ever so slightly at times the range of the literary to encompass an aesthetic vision not easily reducible to the literal the known the allegorical or even the philosophical. <p/>In this way <i>Kabbalah and Literature</i> proposes a novel intuitive approach shifting focus away from the Jewish text's epistemological elements to embrace its secrets.</p>