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Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination. The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua / Yael Halevi-Wise.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination ; 9Publisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (226 p.) : 10 mapsContent type:
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  • 9780271088648
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- 1 Condition-of-Israel Novels -- 2 Mapping A. B. Yehoshua’s Worldview -- 3 The Watchman’s Stance -- 4 Vocation -- 5 Holidays -- 6 Names -- 7 Love Under the Burden of History -- Coda: A Telephone Conversation with the Author of Mr. Mani -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Once referred to by the New York Times as the “Israeli Faulkner,” A. B. Yehoshua’s fiction invites an assessment of Israel’s Jewish inheritance and the moral and political options that the country currently faces in the Middle East. The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua is an insightful overview of the fiction, nonfiction, and hundreds of critical responses to the work of Israel’s leading novelist.Instead of an exhaustive chronological-biographical account of Yehoshua’s artistic growth, Yael Halevi-Wise calls for a systematic appreciation of the author’s major themes and compositional patterns. Specifically, she argues for reading Yehoshua’s novels as reflections on the “condition of Israel,” constructed multifocally to engage four intersecting levels of signification: psychological, sociological, historical, and historiosophic. Each of the book’s seven chapters employs a different interpretive method to showcase how Yehoshua’s constructions of character psychology, social relations, national history, and historiosophic allusions to traditional Jewish symbols manifest themselves across his novels. The book ends with a playful dialogue in the style of Yehoshua’s masterpiece, Mr. Mani, that interrogates his definition of Jewish identity.Masterfully written, with full control of all the relevant materials, Halevi-Wise’s assessment of Yehoshua will appeal to students and scholars of modern Jewish literature and Jewish studies.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- 1 Condition-of-Israel Novels -- 2 Mapping A. B. Yehoshua’s Worldview -- 3 The Watchman’s Stance -- 4 Vocation -- 5 Holidays -- 6 Names -- 7 Love Under the Burden of History -- Coda: A Telephone Conversation with the Author of Mr. Mani -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

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Once referred to by the New York Times as the “Israeli Faulkner,” A. B. Yehoshua’s fiction invites an assessment of Israel’s Jewish inheritance and the moral and political options that the country currently faces in the Middle East. The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua is an insightful overview of the fiction, nonfiction, and hundreds of critical responses to the work of Israel’s leading novelist.Instead of an exhaustive chronological-biographical account of Yehoshua’s artistic growth, Yael Halevi-Wise calls for a systematic appreciation of the author’s major themes and compositional patterns. Specifically, she argues for reading Yehoshua’s novels as reflections on the “condition of Israel,” constructed multifocally to engage four intersecting levels of signification: psychological, sociological, historical, and historiosophic. Each of the book’s seven chapters employs a different interpretive method to showcase how Yehoshua’s constructions of character psychology, social relations, national history, and historiosophic allusions to traditional Jewish symbols manifest themselves across his novels. The book ends with a playful dialogue in the style of Yehoshua’s masterpiece, Mr. Mani, that interrogates his definition of Jewish identity.Masterfully written, with full control of all the relevant materials, Halevi-Wise’s assessment of Yehoshua will appeal to students and scholars of modern Jewish literature and Jewish studies.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Mrz 2023)