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 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. "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 Standing at a unique crossroads between religion and secularism, Agnon probes the paradoxes and ambiguities of the Zionist hermeneutic project. With superb irony, Agnon's tales recast Israeli biblicism as a peculiar chapter within the ever-surprising history of biblical exegesis.

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• Authors: Ilana Pardes
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 01.02.2014
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies
• EAN: 9780295993027
• ISBN: 978-0-295-99302-7
• Pages: 216
• Series: Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies, 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