| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 221 pages) |
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text file |
| Note |
Revision of the author's thesis (PhD)--Stanford University, 2007. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-211) and index. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
In this book, the author observes that prose writing -- more than poetry, drama, or other genres -- came to signify a historic rift that resulted in loss and disenchantment. The author 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, the practice of performance. Using Zionist literature as a test case, the author 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Bialik, Hayyim Nahman, 1873-1934 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Bialik, Hayyim Nahman, 1873-1934. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Herzl, Theodor, 1860-1904 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Herzl, Theodor, 1860-1904. |
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Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856. |
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Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831. |
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Zionism in literature.
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Zionism in literature. |
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Prose literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism.
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Prose literature. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. |
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Jewish authors. |
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Languages & Literatures. |
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Literature -- General. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Dictionaries.
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Dictionaries.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rokem, Na'ama. Prosaic conditions. Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2013 (DLC) 2012030087 |
| ISBN |
9780810166394 (electronic book) |
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0810166399 (electronic book) |
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9780810128675 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0810128675 |
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