Symbolism 12/13 : : [Special Focus – Jewish Magic Realism] /

Symbolism 12/13 : : [Special Focus – Jewish Magic Realism] / / ed. by Rüdiger Ahrens, Klaus Stierstorfer.

Magic realism has become a significant mode of expression in Jewish cultural production. This special focus of Symbolism for the first time explores in a comparative and transnational approach the magic realist engagement of Jewish writers, artists, and filmmakers from the Diaspora and from Israel w...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Adams, Jenni,
Domsch, Sebastian,
Eilat, Shuly,
Gill, Patrick,
Harris, Rachel S.,
Huber, Irmtraud,
Jones, Hester,
Jordan, James,
Kläger, Florian,
Koren-Kuik, Meyrav,
Lejman, Michael,
Michelis, Angelica,
Millet, Kitty,
Popescu, Diana,
Puschmann-Nalenz, Barbara,
Shanks, Andrew,
Sicher, Efraim,
Sinclair, Clive,
Stewart, Jack,
Stähler, Axel,
Tillman, Aaron,
Vice, Sue,
Weiss, Vered,
HerausgeberIn:
Ahrens, Rüdiger,
Stierstorfer, Klaus,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]
©2014
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Symbolism : An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics , 12/13
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Physical Description:1 online resource (422 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword from the Editors
  • Contents
  • Special Focus: Jewish Magic Realism
  • Introduction: A Jewish Magic Realism?
  • Is Magical Realism Kosher? A Conversation
  • Universalism and Symbolism in Holocaust Fiction
  • Intertextuality and the Trace of the Other: Specters of Bruno Schulz
  • Generic Hybridity, or Mediating Modes of Writing: Agnon’s Magical Realistic and Gothic National Narration
  • Dreams in the Desert: Searching for Identity in Albert Memmi’s Experimental Fiction
  • Inception of a Nation and the Birth of the Hero: Magic Realism in Meir Shalev’s A Pigeon and a Boy and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children
  • The Search for M…: Magic Realism in Doron Rabinovici and Benjamin Stein
  • Displacement and Jewish Identity: Magical Realism in the Novels of Dara Horn
  • “Jewish, Here in the Back”: The Magical and Comical Call of an Enigmatic Difference in Nathan Englander’s “The Gilgul of Park Avenue” and Steve Stern’s “The Tale of a Kite”
  • Can the Holocaust Novel be a Magical Realist Novel? H. G. Adler’s The Journey ‘after Auschwitz’
  • The Usual Suspects: Jewish Magical Realism, Trauma and the Holocaust
  • Magic and Realism in the Art and the Memoir of Samuel Bak
  • “A Strange, Special Day. Playing a Ghost, Yet Haunting Myself.” The Holocaust, the Magical and the Real in Elijah Moshinsky’s Genghis Cohn (1993)
  • Ahoti Hayafa (2011): Magical Realism and Marginalization in the World of the Mizrachi Woman
  • General Section
  • On the Edge of No Place. Liminal Spaces and Fictional Representation in the Age of Postmodernism
  • Virginia Woolf’s “Surreal” Imagery in Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse
  • Halftone Reality: Icon and Symbol in Graphic Narrative
  • “Where Bees Pray on Their Knees”: Spiritual and Religious Symbolism in Carol Ann Duffy’s The Bees
  • The Language of the Deep: Symbolism and Its Place in Twentieth-century Religious Poetry
  • “Across the Divide”: The Contemporary English Elegy
  • Hope, Incandescent yet Contained: A Hegelian Reading of Hölderlin’s “Celebration of Peace”
  • Book Reviews
  • Contributors
  • Index

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