Modern Hebrew fiction
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Modern Hebrew fiction
（Jewish literature and culture）
Indiana University Press, c2000
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Hasiporet ha ʿIvrit 1880-1980
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Includes index
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Description
Gershon Shaked's history of modern Hebrew fiction traces the emergence and development of a literature "against all odds" - from its European roots in the 1880s, when it had neither a country nor a spoken language, to the flowering of a literary culture on Israeli soil from the founding of the State through the 1990s. The product of more than 20 years of research, it is unique in its scope, profiling four generations of Hebrew writers from Mendele Mokher Seforim, I. L. Peretz, and Haim Nahman Bialik through Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Aharon Appelfeld, Amalia Kahana-Carmon, Amos Oz, and A. B. Yehoshua, to the recent writings of David Grossman, Meir Shalev, and Orly Castel-Bloom. Through detailed discussions of themes and style in specific texts, Shaked conveys the richness of the Hebrew literary tradition. At the same time, through biographical surveys, historical observations, and socio-cultural and political analyses, he illuminates the relationship of these writings to the context in which they were produced, revealing the complex inter-textual play between Hebrew literature and life.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents Editor's Foreword 1. "A Literature Against All Odds": The Advent of Modern Hebrew Literature 2. Mendele Mokher Seforim: "Formulation" and the Stirrings of Hebrew Social Realism 3. Hebrew Literary Romanticism: Religion, Myth, and the Westernisation of Hebrew Literature 4. Hebrew Literary Realism: From the "New Path" to Local Colour Fiction 5. Psychological Realism and the Poetics of Disenchantment: Literature *De Profundis* 6. Genre and Anti-Genre: Will All Hopes Be Fulfilled? 7. The Crossroads, or Is This the Abode of the Spirit? S. Y. Agnon 8. To Build and Be Rebuilt: Homeland Art and the Third Aliyah 9. Hebrew Literary Modernism: Jewish Fiction and the International Scene 10. Literary Realism, 1940-1980: Transformations of a Genre and the Struggle for National Narrative 11. Political Crisis and Literary Revolution: The New Wave, 1960-1980 12. Toward the 1990s: A Generation without Dreams Glossary Works Cited Index
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