Roman Katsman

Nostalgia for a Foreign Land (eBook, PDF)

Studies in Russian-Language Literature in Israel

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume focuses on several Russian authors among many who immigrated to Israel with the 'big wave' of 1990s or later, and whose largest part of the works was written in Israel: Dina Rubina, Nekod Singer, Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yury Nesis, and Mikhail Yudson. Roman Katsman is Professor of Hebrew Literature at Bar-Ilan University. He is author of six books and numerous articles on Hebrew and Russian literatures, and Jewish-Russian literature and thought. His recent interests are concerned with laughter in S.Y. Agnon's works and the contemporary Russian intellectual literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781618115294
• Artikelnr.: 56998385

Autorenporträt

Roman Katsman was born in the USSR and has lived in Israel since 1990. He is a Professor in the Department of Literature of the Jewish People in Bar-Ilan University. Katsman is the author of number of books and articles about Hebrew and Russian literature, particularly about Jewish-Russian and Russian-Israeli literature and thought. He has worked on the theoretical problems of mythopoesis, chaos, nonverbal communication, sincerity, alternative history, and humor. His most recent books, Elusive Reality: A Hundred Years of Russian-Israeli Literature (1920-2020), (2020, in Russian) and Nostalgia for a Foreign Land (2016, in English), examine the Russian-language literature in Israel. Other major publication include Laughter in Heaven: Symbols of Laughter in the Works of S.Y. Agnon, in Hebrew (2018), Literature, History, Choice: The Principle of Alternative History in Literature (2013), At the Other End of Gesture. Anthropological Poetics of Gesture in Modern Hebrew Literature (2008), Poetics of Becoming: Dynamic Processes of Mythopoesis in Modern and Postmodern Hebrew and Slavic Literature (2005), The Time of Cruel Miracles: Mythopoesis in Dostoevsky and Agnon (2002) and others.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Dina Rubina: A Portrait of the Artist as a Messiah and a Pirate Introduction Carnival and Sincerity Migration and Neoindigeneity Messiahs, Mothers, and Orphans Victims and Heroes From Trauma to the Real Origins and Copies Fugitives, Nomads, and Pirates The Metaphysical Leap Nekod Singer in Russian and Hebrew: Neoeclecticism and Beyond A Noble Man of Our Times The Jerusalem Trilogy of Elizaveta Mikhailichenko and Yury Nesis Ierusalimsky dvorianin (A noble man of Jerusalem, 1997): An Abortive Gesture of Violence I/e_rus.olim (2004): History, Sacrifice, and Network
(Preemptive Revenge, 2006): The Other
s Heroism Mikhail Yudson
s Lestnitsa na shkaf (The ladder to the cabinet): The New Language of Metaphysics A Ladder to the Neoindigeneity Afterword Works Cited