Ginsburg / Ron Shattered Vessels

Memory, Identity, and Creation in the Work of David Shahar
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8600-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture

The first book-length study of the Israeli novelist David Shahar.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ginsburg, Michal Peled

Ron, Moshe

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Literatur des Nahen Ostens & Nordafrikas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Flirting with the Uncanny
Narrative Organization
Chronology
Identities
Uncanny Photo
2. The Eyes of a Woman in (and out of) Love: Creation, Painting, and Betrayal in Shahar's Fiction
"Of Shadows and the Image"
"Of Dreams"
"First Lesson"
His Majesty's Agent
Of Candles and Winds
3. Shahar's Jerusalem
Small World/Liminal Space
Space and Plot
Heterotopia
An Urban Idyll
4. Otherness, Identity, and Place
Fluid Identities and Violent Mobs
The Portrait of the Narrator as an Arab Chauffeur
Exchanging Clothes, Exchanging Places
Canaanite, Hebrew, Jew
A Cautionary Tale
5. Remembering Proust
Similes of Memory
Metaphor and Metonymy
Autobiographical Narration
Apprenticeship
Artists
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michal Peled Ginsburg is Professor of French and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department of French and Italian at Northwestern University. She is the author of Flaubert Writing: A Study in Narrative Strategies; Economies of Change: Form and Transformation in the Nineteenth-Century Novel; and editor of Approaches to Teaching Balzac's Old Goriot. Moshe Ron is Senior Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the translator of La Pharmacie de Platon by Jacques Derrida, as well as works by Raymond Carver and Paul Auster.