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Hebrew Gothic : History and the Poetics of Persecution /

"Sinister tales written since the early 20th century by the foremost Hebrew authors, including S. Y. Agnon, Leah Goldberg, and Amos Oz, reveal a darkness at the foundation of Hebrew culture. The ghosts of a murdered Talmud scholar and his kidnapped bride rise from their graves for a nocturnal d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Grumberg, Karen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Gothic Matters
  • Always Already Gothic: S. Y. Agnon's Tales of Terror and the Spectral European Jewish Past
  • Maternal Macabre: Feminine Subjectivity at the Edge of the Shtetl in Dvora Baron and Jacob Steinberg
  • After the Nightmare of the Holocaust: Gothic Temporalities and the Insecure Sanctuary in Lea Goldberg's "The Lady of the Castle" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death"
  • Dark Jerusalem: Amos Oz's Anxious Literary Cartography Between 1948 and
  • Historiographic Perversions: Echoes of Otranto in A. B. Yehoshua's Mr. Mani
  • A Seance for the Self: Memory, Non-Memory and the Re-Orientation of History in Almog Behar and Toni Morrison
  • Coda: "Here are our monsters": Hebrew Horror from the Political to Pop