With Both Feet on the Clouds
Fantasy in Israeli Literature
Why do Israelis dislike fantasy? Put so bluntly, the question appears frivolous. But in fact, it goes to the deepest sources of Israeli historical identity and literary tradition. Uniquely among developed nations, Israel's origin is in a utopian novel, Theodor Herzl's 'Altneuland' (1902), which predicted the future Jewish state. Jewish writing in the Diaspora has always tended toward the fantastic, the mystical, and the magical. And yet, from its very inception, Israeli literature has been stubbornly realistic. The present volume challenges this stance. Originally published in Hebrew in 2009, it is the first serious, wide-ranging,…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Gomel, Elana (Hrsg.) / Gurevitch, Danielle (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-936235-83-4
- EAN: 9781936235834
- Produktnummer: 14550879
- Verlag: Academic Studies Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 312 S.
- Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.1 cm 636 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 636
Über den Autor
Danielle Gurevitch (PhD Bar-Ilan University) is an ethnologist who specializes in fantasy fiction and myth, folk and traditional narratives in medieval England and France, and the neo-medievalist approach to the growing popularity of medieval literary sources and aspiration. She is the associate dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
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