Symbolism 12/13 : [Special Focus - Jewish Magic Realism] / Rüdiger Ahrens, Klaus Stierstorfer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ahrens, Rüdiger, editor.

Kläger, Florian.

Stierstorfer, Klaus, editor.

Stähler, Axel.

Series:

Symbolism

Symbolism ; 12/13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish magic--History.

Jewish magic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Magic realism has become a significant mode of expression in Jewish cultural production. This special focus of Symbolism for the first time explores in a comparative and transnational approach the magic realist engagement of Jewish writers, artists, and filmmakers from the Diaspora and from Israel with issues of identity, oppression and persecution as well as the Holocaust.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword from the Editors

Contents

Special Focus: Jewish Magic Realism

Introduction: A Jewish Magic Realism? / Stähler, Axel

Is Magical Realism Kosher? A Conversation / Sinclair, Clive

Universalism and Symbolism in Holocaust Fiction / Vice, Sue

Intertextuality and the Trace of the Other: Specters of Bruno Schulz / Adams, Jenni

Generic Hybridity, or Mediating Modes of Writing: Agnon's Magical Realistic and Gothic National Narration / Weiss, Vered

Dreams in the Desert: Searching for Identity in Albert Memmi's Experimental Fiction / Lejman, Michael

Inception of a Nation and the Birth of the Hero: Magic Realism in Meir Shalev's A Pigeon and a Boy and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children / Sicher, Efraim / Eilat, Shuly

The Search for M...: Magic Realism in Doron Rabinovici and Benjamin Stein / Stähler, Axel

Displacement and Jewish Identity: Magical Realism in the Novels of Dara Horn / Koren-Kuik, Meyrav

"Jewish, Here in the Back": The Magical and Comical Call of an Enigmatic Difference in Nathan Englander's "The Gilgul of Park Avenue" and Steve Stern's "The Tale of a Kite" / Tillman, Aaron

Can the Holocaust Novel be a Magical Realist Novel? H. G. Adler's The Journey 'after Auschwitz' / Millet, Kitty

The Usual Suspects: Jewish Magical Realism, Trauma and the Holocaust / Huber, Irmtraud

Magic and Realism in the Art and the Memoir of Samuel Bak / Popescu, Diana

"A Strange, Special Day. Playing a Ghost, Yet Haunting Myself." The Holocaust, the Magical and the Real in Elijah Moshinsky's Genghis Cohn (1993) / Jordan, James

Ahoti Hayafa (2011): Magical Realism and Marginalization in the World of the Mizrachi Woman / Harris, Rachel S.

General Section

On the Edge of No Place. Liminal Spaces and Fictional Representation in the Age of Postmodernism / Puschmann-Nalenz, Barbara

Virginia Woolf's "Surreal" Imagery in Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse / Stewart, Jack

Halftone Reality: Icon and Symbol in Graphic Narrative / Domsch, Sebastian

"Where Bees Pray on Their Knees": Spiritual and Religious Symbolism in Carol Ann Duffy's The Bees / Michelis, Angelica

The Language of the Deep: Symbolism and Its Place in Twentieth-century Religious Poetry / Jones, Hester

"Across the Divide": The Contemporary English Elegy / Gill, Patrick

Hope, Incandescent yet Contained: A Hegelian Reading of Hölderlin's "Celebration of Peace" / Shanks, Andrew

Book Reviews

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9783110297201

3110297205

OCLC:

979745646