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Prosaic conditions : Heinrich Heine and the spaces of Zionist literature / Na'ama Rokem.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rokem, Na'ama.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bialik, Hayyim Nahman, 1873-1934.
- Herzl, Theodor, 1860-1904.
- Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856.
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
- Prose literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism.
- Prose literature.
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831--Criticism and interpretation.
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.
- Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856--Criticism and interpretation.
- Heine, Heinrich.
- Herzl, Theodor, 1860-1904--Criticism and interpretation.
- Herzl, Theodor.
- Bialik, Hayyim Nahman, 1873-1934--Criticism and interpretation.
- Bialik, Hayyim Nahman.
- Zionism in literature.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Jewish authors.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 221 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- In her penetrating new study, Na'ama Rokem observes, that prose writing-more than poetry, drama, or other genres-came to signify a historic rift that resulted in loss and disenchantment. In Prosaic Conditions, Rokem treats prose as a signifying practice-that is, a practice that creates meaning. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, prose emerges in competition with other existing practices, specifically, that of performance. Using Zionist literature as a test case, Rokem examines the ways in which Zionist authors put prose to use, both as a concept and as a literary mode. Writing prose enables these authors to grapple with historical, political, and spatial, transformations and to understand the interrelatedness of all of these changes. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Prose regnant: world, state, and subject in Hegel's lectures on aesthetics
- Heinrich Heine, explorer of the current prosaic condition
- Mediated situatedness in the reception of Heinrich Heine
- Theodor Herzl's technocratic world-making in prose
- Haim Nahman Bialik's icy river of prose
- Heine and the Israeli novel
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Revised version of the author's thesis (PhD)--Stanford University, 2007.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-211) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780810128675
- 0810128675
- OCLC:
- 781680913
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