| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 200 pages) |
| Series |
Cultural expressions of World War II: interwar preludes, responses, memory |
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Cultural expressions of World War II.
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| Contents |
On the absent pen : intersexual dialogue as melancholia in Yehudit Hendel's prose of the 1950s -- The secret that makes a hero of the weak : imaginary fathers and cross-gender identification in Amalia Kahana-Carmon's early prose -- Spoiling the stories : Rachel Eytan revisits the Hebrew Künstlerroman -- Epilogue. The past that cries out for change : new directions in intersexual dialogue |
| Summary |
"In Spoiling the Stories, Tamar Merin presents the as yet untold story of the rise of prose by Israeli women, while further exploring and expanding the gendered models of literary influence in modern Hebrew literature. The theoretical idea upon which this book is based is that of intersexual dialogue, a term that refers to the various literary strategies employed by Israeli female fiction writers expressing their voice within a male-dominated and (still) inherently Oedipal literary tradition. Spoiling the Stories focuses on intersexual dialogue as it evolved in the first three decades after the establishment of the state of Israel in the works of Yehudit Hendel, Amalia Kahana Carmon, and Rachel Eytan. According to Merin, these three women writers were the most important in the history of modern Hebrew literature: each was a significant participant in the poetic development of her time"--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Eytan, Rachel -- Criticism and interpretation
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Kahana-Carmon, Amalia -- Criticism and interpretation
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Hendel, Yehudit -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Eytan, Rachel fast |
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Hendel, Yehudit fast |
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Kahana-Carmon, Amalia fast |
| Subject |
Women and literature -- Israel
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Israeli fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Israeli fiction -- Women authors
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Women and literature
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Feminist theory.
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Women.
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Feminism.
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Israel
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| Genre/Form |
Feminist literary criticism
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780810133723 |
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0810133725 |
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