With both feet on the clouds : fantasy in Israeli literature

With both feet on the clouds : fantasy in Israeli literature / edited by Danielle Gurevitch, Elana Gomel, Rani Graff.

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), wh...

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Other Authors: Gurevitch, Danielle, Gomel, Elana, Graff, Rani
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Brighton, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2013
Series:Israel (Boston, Mass.)
Subjects:
1900-1999
Hebrew literature > History and criticism.
Hebrew literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Fantasy in literature.
Mysticism in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > African.
Fantasy in literature
Hebrew literature
Hebrew literature, Modern
Mysticism in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • What is Fantasy?
  • What Is Reality?
  • What is Unimaginable?
  • May He Come in Haste: Urban Fantasy in Soothsayer by Asaf Ashery
  • Etgar Keretâ€?s Fantastic Reality
  • Postmodern Jewish Superstition in David Grossmanâ€?s To the End of the Land
  • Dybbuk, Husband, Home: Shmuel Hasfari and the Fantastic Tradition in Israeli Theater
  • Magical Realism in Israeli Cinema
  • The Grand High Witch of Dreams
  • The Man from the Yellow Star
  • Why Doesnâ€?t It Rain Fish Here?
  • Kosher Vampires: Jews, Vampires, and PrejudiceTravel Literature: The Itinerary of an Armchair Travelerâ€?s Journey to Eretz Israel in a Seventeenth-Century Yiddish Story
  • Ghost Stories in Medieval Hebrew Folktales: The Case of Sefer Hasidim and Sippurei Ha-Ari1
  • A Terrible Fable and Enchanting Fiction: The Story of Joseph De-La Reina and Its Reflections in Two Novels of Yehoshua Bar Yosef
  • The Borders of Messianic Imagination in Jewish Thinking

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