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Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art Ser.: War Lives : Revenge, Grief, and Conflict in Israeli Fiction by Nitza Ben-Dov (2024, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSyracuse University Press
ISBN-100815637985
ISBN-139780815637981
eBay Product ID (ePID)27066536922
Product Key Features
Number of Pages408 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameWar Lives : Revenge, Grief, and Conflict in Israeli Fiction
Publication Year2024
SubjectMiddle East / Israel & Palestine, Subjects & Themes / Politics, Jewish
TypeTextbook
AuthorNitza Ben-Dov
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, History
SeriesJudaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight19.8 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2024-029532
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsBen-Dov, one of Israel's leading literary critics, illuminates a series of Hebrew novels that engage the experience of war. Israel has lived with war or the shadow of war since its inception, and the deft analysis of this book demonstrates how literature can serve as a sensitive barometer to the quandaries of a nation enmeshed in armed struggle by the conditions of its historical situation., Highly important, elegantly composed, and extremely valuable. It serves as a new and exciting overview of modern Hebrew literature and the Israeli experience."" - Yael Halevi-Wise, author of The Retrospective Imagination of A. B. Yehoshua ""Provides English speaking audiences with a wonderful opportunity to learn more about Hebrew novels and the context, themes, structure, and motifs in these texts."" - Adia Mendelson-Maoz, author of Territories and Borders in the Shadow of the Intifada ""Ben-Dov, one of Israel's leading literary critics, illuminates a series of Hebrew novels that engage the experience of war. Israel has lived with war or the shadow of war since its inception, and the deft analysis of this book demonstrates how literature can serve as a sensitive barometer to the quandaries of a nation enmeshed in armed struggle by the conditions of its historical situation."" - Robert Alter, University of California, Berkeley, Highly important, elegantly composed, and extremely valuable. It serves as a new and exciting overview of modern Hebrew literature and the Israeli experience., Provides English speaking audiences with a wonderful opportunity to learn more about Hebrew novels and the context, themes, structure, and motifs in these texts.
Dewey Decimal892.436093581
SynopsisSince the nation's founding, Israel has existed in a state of near perpetual warfare. Despite this, Hebrew novels that deal with the experience of contemporary conflict are surprisingly rare. In War Lives, Nitza Ben-Dov argues that Israeli writers employ the freedoms granted by fiction to challenge the heroic myth of war. She suggests that these ......, Since the nation's founding, Israel has existed in a state of near perpetual warfare. Despite this, Hebrew novels that deal with the experience of contemporary conflict are surprisingly rare. In War Lives, Nitza Ben-Dov argues that Israeli writers employ the freedoms granted by fiction to challenge the heroic myth of war. She suggests that these writers do so not only by turning inwards, towards the home front and the psyches of individuals marked by post-trauma, but also by unsettling the relationship between historical fact and fiction, between purported reliability and representation. Through close readings of a range of novels by authors such as S. Y. Agnon, Yehuda Amichai, and Amos Oz, Ben-Dov foregrounds war as a coordinate from which Israeli novels are driven and to which they return in equal measure. While each chapter focuses on a different theme-from mourning to battleground camaraderie to vengeance-Ben-Dov's literary analyses demonstrate how these canonical works afford an in-depth view of the symbiosis between civilian and military life, the comorbidity of life living under the constant threat of war., Since the nation's founding, Israel has existed in a state of near perpetual warfare. Despite this, Hebrew novels that deal with the experience of contemporary conflict are surprisingly rare. In War Lives, Nitza Ben-Dov argues that Israeli writers employ the freedoms granted by fiction to challenge the heroic myth of war. She suggests that these writers do so not only by turning inwards, towards the home front and the psyches of individuals marked by post-trauma, but also by unsettling the relationship between historical fact and fiction, between purported reliability and representation. Through close readings of a range of novels by authors such as S. Y. Agnon, Yehuda Amichai, and Amos Oz, Ben-Dov foregrounds war as a coordinate from which Israeli novels are driven and to which they return in equal measure. While each chapter focuses on a different theme--from mourning to battleground camaraderie to vengeance--Ben-Dov's literary analyses demonstrate how these canonical works afford an in-depth view of the symbiosis between civilian and military life, the comorbidity of life living under the constant threat of war.
LC Classification NumberPJ5012.W37B4613 2024
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