Prosaic Conditions: Heinrich Heine and the Spaces of Zionist Literature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780810128675)

In her penetrating new study, Na'ama Rokem observes that prose writing--more than poetry, drama, or other genres--came to signify a historic rift that resulted in loss and disenchantment. In Prosaic Conditions, Rokem treats prose as a signifying practice--that is, a practice that creates meaning. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, prose emerges in competition with other existing practices, specifically, the practice of performance. Using Zionist literature as a test case, Rokem examines the ways in which Zionist authors put prose to use, both as a concept and as a literary mode. Writing prose enables these authors to grapple with historical, political, and spatial transformations and to understand the interrelatedness of all of these changes.

Author: Na'ama Rokem
ISBN-10: 0810128675
ISBN-13: 9780810128675
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/28/2013
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.01h x 6.06w x 0.52d