Eve's Journey : Feminine Images in Hebraic Literary Tradition / Nehama Aschkenasy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aschkenasy, Nehama, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eve (Biblical figure)--In literature.

Bible and literature.

Hebrew literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Hebrew literature, Modern.

Women in literature.

Women in Judaism.

Women in the Bible.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Eve's Journey, Nehama Aschkenasy traces the migration of several female images and feminine situations from their early appearances in Biblical writings to their incarnations in modern Hebraic literature. Focusing on the evolution of early female archetypes and prototypes, Aschkenasy uncovers the ancient roots of modern female characters and traces the changing cultural perceptions of women in Hebraic letters.The author draws on the vast body of Hebraic literary documents to illustrate how the female character is a mirror of her times as well as being a product of her creator''s imagination and conception of the woman's role in society and in fiction. The historical spectrum, provided by a discussion of Biblical narratives, Midrashic sources, documents of the Jewish mystics, Hasidic tales, and modern Hebrew works, allows an understanding of the metamorphosis that the female figure has experienced in her literary odyssey.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

One. The Mutation of Feminine Otherness: A Historical Overview

Two. Evil, Sex, and the Demonic

Three. The Empty Vessel: Woman as Mother

Four. Woman and Oppression

Five. Female Strategy

Epilogue

A Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 257-262.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9781512800111

1512800112

OCLC:

568936016