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With Both Feet on the Clouds: Fantasy in Israeli Literature by Gurevitch: Used

Description: 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 predicted the future Jewish state. Jewish writing in the Diaspora has always tended toward the fantastic, the mystical, and the magical. And yet, from its very inception, Israeli literature has been stubbornly realistic. The present volume challenges this stance. Originally published in Hebrew in 2009, it is the first serious, wide-ranging, and theoretically sophisticated exploration of fantasy in Israeli literature and culture. Its contributors jointly attempt to contest the question posed at the beginning: why do Israelis, living in a country whose very existence is predicated on the fulfillment of a utopian dream, distrust fantasy? About the EditorsDanielle Gurevitch (PhD Bar-Ilan University) is an ethnologist who specializes in fantasy fiction and myth, folk and traditional narratives in medieval England and France, and the neo-medievalist approach to the growing popularity of medieval literary sources and aspiration. She is the associate dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.Elana Gomel (PhD Tel Aviv University) is currently a senior lecturer and graduate advisor at the Department of English at Tel Aviv University. She is the author of numerous articles and four books, the most recent of which is Postmodern Science Fiction and Temporal Imagination (2010).Rani Graff is the founder and CEO of Graff Publishing, Israel’s only publisher specifically devoted to Hebrew-language science fiction and fantasy.

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Book Title: With Both Feet on the Clouds: Fantasy in Israeli Literature

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Publisher: Academic Studies Press

Item Length: 6.5 in

Original Language: Hebrew

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Vintage: No

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Publication Year: 2013

Format: Hard cover

Publication Date: 2013-02-21

Language: English

Item Height: 9 in

Author: Gurevitch, Danielle (Editor), and Gomel, Elana (Editor), and Graf

Personalized: No

Genre: Fantasy

Topic: Literature

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Unit Quantity: 1

Item Width: 1 in

Item Weight: 1.32 lbs

Number of Pages: 309

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