Publications

Literature Written from Here: A Brief Summary of Israeli Literature
Hannan Hever
Publication Year: 1999
Description:

This book presents a panoramic and all-inclusive portrait of the literature written in Hebrew during the state of Israel’s 50 years. This portrait contains books translated from other Israeli languages such as Yiddish and Arabic, as well as a number of foreign languages. All these texts, as well as texts written about literature, critical texts, children’s books, and popular writing, are a lively, active, productive, and influential component of “Israeli Literature.”

In the Language of Walter Benjamin
Carol Jacobs
Publication Year: 1999
Description:

This book insists on Benjamin’s method of philosophical contemplation as performance, on a performance that demands precise immersion in the minute details of its subject matter. Readings of some of his key works: the autobiographical Berlin Chronicle, the apparently biographical study of Proust, the fictional autobiographical story “Myslowitz—Braunschweig—Marseille,” and those essays on the theory of language so crucial to an understanding of Benjamin, “The Task of the Translator,” “Doctrine of the Similar,” and “On Language as Such and on the Language of Man.”

Petersburg: Crucible of Cultural Revolution

Publication Year: 1998
Description:

In this new book, Katerina Clark does not attempt to account for such a devolution by looking at the broad political arena. Rather, she follows the quest of intellectuals through these years to embody the Revolution, a focus that casts new light on the formation of Stalinism. This revisionist work takes issue with many existing cultural histories by resisting the temptation to structure its narrative as a saga of the oppressive regime versus the benighted intellectuals.

Epic and Empire
David Quint
Publication Year: 1998
Description:

Alexander the Great, according to Plutarch, carried on his campaigns a copy of the Iliad, kept alongside a dagger; on a more pronounced ideological level, ancient Romans looked to the Aeneid as an argument for imperialism. In this major reinterpretation of epic poetry beginning with Virgil, David Quint explores the political context and meanings of key works in Western literature.

The Image in Dispute: Art and Photography in the Age of Cinema
Dudley Andrew
Publication Year: 1997
Description:

An anthology of thirteen original essays divided into sections on Walter Benjamin and his influence on images, on the traditional fine arts in the light of photography, and cinema confronted by changes in technology.

Bardic Nationalism: The Romantic Novel and the British Empire
Katie Trumpener
Publication Year: 1997
Description:

This magisterial work links the literary and intellectual history of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Britain’s overseas colonies during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to redraw our picture of the origins of cultural nationalism, the lineages of the novel, and the literary history of the English-speaking world. Katie Trumpener recovers and recontextualizes a vast body of fiction to describe the history of the novel during a period of formal experimentation and political engagement, between its eighteenth-century “rise” and its Victorian “heyday.”

Modern Philology
Katie Trumpener
Publication Year: 1995
Description:

co-edited with Joshua Scodel, 1995–2002.

Modern Philology sets the standard for literary scholarship, history, and criticism. The journal features contributions on literature in all modern world languages, including productive comparisons of texts and traditions from European and non-European literatures. Its wide editorial scope encompasses literary works, literary traditions, and literary criticism from, roughly, the time of Charlemagne to the present. MP also publishes insightful reviews of recent books as well as review articles and research on archival documents.

Mists of Regret: Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film
Dudley Andrew
Publication Year: 1995
Description:

Overview of 1930s French Film art and industry cresting with analysis of the Poetic Realist masterpieces and the work of Renoir.

1995
Hannan Hever
Publication Year: 1995
Description:

In 1928 Ezra Zusman published his poem “Tiberias in the Rain” in the Eretz-Israeli periodical “Echoes.” Its words have resonated with readers of Hebrew poetry for generations. The poem’s symbolic link between the figure of Jesus – a youth floating ‘high and holy’ – and the agricultural image of metaphorically sowing seeds and of rain as a moment of messianic epiphany are typical of the language of Eretz-Israeli poetry. Representing the Zionist act as one of holy redemption was at the center of a poetic and political contest within Hebrew poetry.

Poets and Zealots: The Rise of the Political Hebrew Poetry in Eretz-Israel
Hannan Hever
Publication Year: 1994
Description:

Poets and Zealots: The Rise of the Political Hebrew Poetry in Eretz-Israel

Bialik Institute Publishing, Jerusalem, 1994 (Heb.)

Telling Time: Lévi-Strauss, Ford, Lessing, Benjamin, de Man, Wordsworth, Rilke
Carol Jacobs
Publication Year: 1992
Description:

A series of critical readings in which time is the condition of the telling. Despite the cultural and historical disparities among the texts, each is linked by a set of critical and theoretical issues concerning time and language.

Avraham Ben-Yitzhak: Collected Poems
Hannan Hever
Publication Year: 1992
Description:

Avraham Ben-Yitzhak, one of the first Modernist Hebrew poets, published only 12 poems in his life-time, yet his poetry is highly appreciated and influential on all generations of Hebrew poets. From Bialik, Shlonsky, and Lea Goldberg, through Nathan Zach, to young poets writing today, all have regarded his work as one of the pinnacles of Hebrew poetry.

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