| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 221 pages) |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Revision of the author's thesis (PhD)--Stanford University, 2007 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-211) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Bialik, Hayyim Nahman, 1873-1934 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Herzl, Theodor, 1860-1904 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Bialik, Hayyim Nahman, 1873-1934 |
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Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831 |
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Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856 |
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Herzl, Theodor, 1860-1904 |
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Zionism in literature.
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Prose literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Zionism in literature
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Languages & Literatures.
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Literature - General.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012030087 |
| ISBN |
9780810166394 |
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0810166399 |
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