With Both Feet on the Clouds : : Fantasy in Israeli Literature /

With Both Feet on the Clouds : : Fantasy in Israeli Literature / / ed. by Elana Gomel, Danielle Gurevitch, Rani Graff.

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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 predic...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Aderet, Anat,
Bar-Yosef, Eitan,
Blau, Sahara,
Duvdevani, Shmulik,
Gomel, Elana,
Gurevitch, Danielle,
Hareven, Gail,
Manheim, Noa,
Marron, Orley K.,
Melcer, Ioram,
Newman, Ruby,
Peretz, Ido,
Rubinstein, Bilhah,
Schwartz, Dov,
HerausgeberIn:
Gomel, Elana,
Graff, Rani,
Gurevitch, Danielle,
Place / Publishing House:Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Israel: Society, Culture, and History
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • I. DEFINITIONS AND DEBATE
  • What is Fantasy?
  • What Is Reality?
  • What is Unimaginable?
  • II. REALISTIC FANTASY AND FANTASTIC REALISM IN CONTEMPORARY ISRAELI LITERATURE
  • May He Come in Haste: Urban Fantasy in Soothsayer by Asaf Ashery
  • Etgar Keret’s Fantastic Reality
  • Postmodern Jewish Superstition in David Grossman’s To the End of the Land
  • III. VISIONS OF HEAVEN AND HELL: THEATER, CINEMA AND CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
  • Dybbuk, Husband, Home: Shmuel Hasfari and the Fantastic Tradition in Israeli Theater
  • Magical Realism in Israeli Cinema
  • The Grand High Witch of Dreams
  • IV. DIASPORA DREAMS: CULTURAL ROOTS OF JEWISH/ISRAELI FANTASY
  • The Man from the Yellow Star
  • Why Doesn’t It Rain Fish Here?
  • Kosher Vampires: Jews, Vampires, and Prejudice
  • V. “Messiah Does Not Call Back”: Fantasy in Jewish Sources and Ancient Jewish Literature
  • Travel Literature: The Itinerary of an Armchair Traveler’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-Ari
  • 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
  • Appendices
  • Israeli Adult Fantasy and Science Fiction Published From 1948 to 2011
  • Contributors
  • Index

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