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Author Rokem, Na'ama

Title Prosaic conditions : Heinrich Heine and the spaces of Zionist literature / Na'ama Rokem
Published Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2013

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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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Subject Bialik, Hayyim Nahman, 1873-1934 -- Criticism and interpretation
Herzl, Theodor, 1860-1904 -- Criticism and interpretation
Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856 -- Criticism and interpretation
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Bialik, Hayyim Nahman, 1873-1934 fast
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831 fast
Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856 fast
Herzl, Theodor, 1860-1904 fast
Subject Zionism in literature.
Prose literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Zionism in literature
Languages & Literatures.
Literature - General.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012030087
ISBN 9780810166394
0810166399