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With Both Feet on the Clouds: Fantasy in Israeli Literature (Israel: Society, Culture, and History)
Danielle Gurevitch
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Description for With Both Feet on the Clouds: Fantasy in Israeli Literature (Israel: Society, Culture, and History)
Hardcover. Originally published in Hebrew in 2009 by Graf Press and the Heksherim Institute at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev under title: Im shete ha-raglayim amook ba-ananim: fantasy in Hebrew literature, a selection of essays. Editor(s): Gurevitch, Danielle; Gomel, Elana; Graff, Rani. Series: Israel: Society, Culture, and History. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 612.
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. The 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 and theoretically ... Read more
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. The 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 and theoretically ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Academic Studies Press
Condition
New
Series
Israel: Society, Culture, and History
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Brighton, United States
ISBN
9781936235834
SKU
V9781936235834
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About Danielle Gurevitch
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.|Elana Gomel (PhD Tel Aviv University) is currently a senior ... Read more
Reviews for With Both Feet on the Clouds: Fantasy in Israeli Literature (Israel: Society, Culture, and History)
“From the Talmudic sages to Bashevis-Singer, from medieval story-tellers to young contemporary Israeli writers, Jewish fantasy has been a treasure trove of the imagination, at least on a par with Greek and Norse mythologies. Yet unlike them, it has only rarely received scholarly attention. That is why this volume is so badly needed, and so timely, as interest in fantasy ... Read more