With Both Feet on the Clouds: Fantasy in Israeli Literature (Israel: Society, Culture, and History) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 1936235838 ISBN 13: 9781936235834

Verlag: Academic Studies Press, 2013

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Book by Gurevitch Danielle

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"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 is becoming more intense worldwide."--Emanuel Lottem, co-founder and first chairperson, Israeli Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy

Reseña del editor:

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, and theoretically sophisticated exploration of fantasy in Israeli literature and culture. Its contributors jointly attempt to contest the question posed at the beginning: why do Israelis, living in a country whose very existence is predicated on the fulfillment of a utopian dream, distrust fantasy?

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• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1936235838
• ISBN 13: 9781936235834
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 312
• Herausgeber: Gomel Elana, Graff Rani, Gurevitch Danielle