Agnon''s Moonstruck Lovers - The Song of Songs in Israeli Culture

Informationen zum Autor Ilana Pardes is professor of comparative literature at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Klappentext Agnon's Moonstruck Lovers explores the response of Israel's Nobel laureate S. Y. Agnon to the privileged position of the Song of Songs in Israeli culture. Standing at a unique crossroads between religion and secularism, Agnon probes the paradoxes and ambiguities of the Zionist hermeneutic project. In adopting the Song, Zionist interpreters sought to return to the erotic, pastoral landscapes of biblical times. Their quest for a new, uplifting, secular literalism, however, could not efface the haunting impact of allegorical configurations of love. With superb irony, Agnon's tales recast Israeli biblicism as a peculiar chapter within the ever-surprising history of biblical exegesis. "This new study confirms Ilana Pardes as one of the most deeply interesting scholars in the field of comparative literature." --Robert Alter, University of California, Berkeley Zusammenfassung Explores the response of Israel's Nobel laureate S Y Agnon to the privileged position of the Song of Songs in Israeli culture. This book recasts Israeli biblicism as a peculiar chapter within the history of biblical exegesis. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Upon the Handles of the Lock 2. The Song of Songs as Cultural Text: From the European Enlightenment to Israeli Biblicism 3. Rechnitz's Botany of Love: The Song of Seaweed 4. The Biblical Ethnographies of "Edo and Enam" and the Quest for the Ultimate Song Epilogue Forevermore Appendix Notes Bibliography Index

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ilana Pardes
• Verlag: University Of Washington Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.02.2014
• EAN: 9780295993034
• ISBN: 978-0-295-99303-4
• Seiten: 216
• Serien: Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectu; Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies; Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectu; Agnon's Moonstruck Lovers; Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish StudiesSamuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish StudiesSamuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish StudiesSamuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Stu
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges