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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
[2019]
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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