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With both feet on the clouds : fantasy in Israeli literature /
Why do Israelis dislike fantasy? Put so bluntly, the question appears frivolous. But in fact, it goes to the deepest sources of Israeli historical identity and literary tradition. Uniquely among developed nations, Israel's origin is in a utopian novel, Theodor Herzl's Altneuland (1902), wh...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Brighton, MA :
Academic Studies Press,
2013
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| Colección: | Israel (Boston, Mass.)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- What is Fantasy?
- What Is Reality?
- What is Unimaginable?
- May He Come in Haste: Urban Fantasy in Soothsayer by Asaf Ashery
- Etgar Keret�s Fantastic Reality
- Postmodern Jewish Superstition in David Grossman�s To the End of the Land
- Dybbuk, Husband, Home: Shmuel Hasfari and the Fantastic Tradition in Israeli Theater
- Magical Realism in Israeli Cinema
- The Grand High Witch of Dreams
- The Man from the Yellow Star
- Why Doesn�t It Rain Fish Here?
- Kosher Vampires: Jews, Vampires, and PrejudiceTravel Literature: The Itinerary of an Armchair Traveler�s Journey to Eretz Israel in a Seventeenth-Century Yiddish Story
- Ghost Stories in Medieval Hebrew Folktales: The Case of Sefer Hasidim and Sippurei Ha-Ari1
- A Terrible Fable and Enchanting Fiction: The Story of Joseph De-La Reina and Its Reflections in Two Novels of Yehoshua Bar Yosef
- The Borders of Messianic Imagination in Jewish Thinking