Here and now
Subtitle: history, nationalism, and realism in modern Hebrew fiction
By: Todd Hasak-Lowy.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Judaic traditions in literature, music, and art
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780815631576
Subjects: Abramowich, Shalom Jacob, -- 1835-1917 -- Criticism and interpretation; Brenner, Joseph Ḥayyim, -- 1881-1921 -- Criticism and interpretation; Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, -- 1888-1970; Yizhar, S., -- 1916-2006 -- Criticism and interpretation; Zionism in literature; Nationalism in literature; Hebrew literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Hebrew literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Israeli fiction -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-161) and index.
Table of contents: title: Leaving the real at the end of the road : S.Y. Abramovitz's The travels of Benjamin the Third; title: Between realism and modernism : Brenner's mimetic poetics of fragmentation; title: A mad dog's attack on secularized Hebrew : Agnon's Only yesterday; title: Modernist encounters with the national narrative : land and identity in S. Yizhar's early fiction.