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The story Yentl the Yeshiva boy is a ribald period piece. Over time, critic have reinterpreted the story beyond its simple meaning and have lost the ribald humor based in the context of the story. I assert that the context is key.
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It looks at problems of Gender through the lens of critical theory
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Joel West
University of Toronto
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This page is a summary of: The ontology of Yentl: Umberto Eco, semiosis, mimesis, closets and existence, and how to read “Yentl the Yeshiva Boy”, Semiotica, January 2019, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/sem-2017-0122.
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