@book {3162080, title = { Leon Modena\&$\#$39;s Kinah shemor }, year = {2023}, publisher = {Edizioni ETS}, organization = {Edizioni ETS}, address = {Pisa}, author = {Lazarus, Micah} } @book {3162079, title = { The Bible in American Poetic Culture: Community, Conflict, War }, year = {2023}, pages = {247}, publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan}, organization = {Palgrave Macmillan}, author = {Wolosky, Shira} } @book {3162078, title = { The Sacred Power of Language in Modern Jewish Thought: Levinas, Derrida, Scholem }, year = {2023}, pages = {247}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, organization = {De Gruyter}, author = {Shira Wolosky} } @book {3066861, title = {Hazarding All: Shakespeare and the Drama of Consciousness}, year = {2021}, publisher = {Edinburgh University Press}, organization = {Edinburgh University Press}, address = {Edinburgh}, abstract = {Hazarding All: Shakespeare and the Drama of Consciousness\ demonstrates how counter-forces within theatricalization create the conditions for an unmediated encounter with actuality.\ In the pairs of plays examined here, the playwright and the spectator attain to an onlooker consciousness that exits the fictionality, the play-acting, of theatre itself.}, author = {Sanford Budick} } @book {1679009, title = {Flann O\&$\#$39;Brien: Gallows Humour}, year = {2020}, publisher = {Cork University Press}, organization = {Cork University Press}, address = {Cork}, editor = {Borg, Ruben and Fagan, Paul} } @book {1006474, title = {Joseph Conrad: Slow Modernism}, year = {2020}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, address = {Oxford}, author = {Yael Levin} } @book {94539, title = {Just Literature: Philosophical Criticism and Justice}, year = {2019}, publisher = {Routledge}, organization = {Routledge}, address = {New York}, author = {Tzachi Zamir} } @book {94431, title = {Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps: An Intercontexual Reading}, year = {2019}, publisher = {Indiana University Press}, organization = {Indiana University Press}, address = {Bloomington}, abstract = {Devoted to the ways in which Holocaust literature and gulag literature provide contexts for each other, Leona Toker{\textquoteright}s Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps shows how the prominent features of one shed light on the veiled features and methods of the other. Toker views these narratives and texts against the background of historical information about the Soviet and the Nazi regimes of repression. Writers at the center of this work include Varlam Shalamov, Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, and Ka-Tzetnik, and others including Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniya Ginzburg, and Jorge Semprun illuminate the discussion. Toker{\textquoteright}s twofold analysis concentrates on the narrative qualities of the works as well as how each text documents the writer{\textquoteright}s experience. She provides insight into how fictionalized narrative can double as historical testimony, how references to events might have become obscure owing to the passage of time and the cultural diversity of readers, and how these references form new meaning in the text. Toker is well-known as a skillful interpreter of gulag literature, and this text presents new thinking about how gulag literature and Holocaust literature enable a better understanding about testimony in the face of evil.\ }, author = {Toker, Leona} } @book {70392, title = {Fantasies of Self-Mourning: Modernism, the Posthuman and the Finite}, year = {2019}, note = {https://rubenborg.huji.ac.il/sites/default/files/rubenborg/files/fantasies_of_self-mourning-modernism_theposthuman.pdf}, publisher = {Brill}, organization = {Brill}, address = {Leiden and Boston}, abstract = {In\ Fantasies of Self-Mourning\ Ruben Borg describes the formal features of a posthuman, cyborgian imaginary at work in modernism. The book{\textquoteright}s central claim is that modernism invents the posthuman as a way to think through the contradictions of its historical moment. Borg develops a posthumanist critique of the concept of organic life based on comparative readings of Pirandello, Woolf, Beckett, and Flann O{\textquoteright}Brien, alongside discussions of Alfred Hitchcock, Chris Marker, B{\'e}la Tarr, Ridley Scott and Mamoru Oshii. The argument draws together a cluster of modernist narratives that contemplate the separation of a cybernetic eye from a human body{\textemdash}or call for a tearing up of the body understood as a discrete organic unit capable of synthesizing desire and sense perception.}, author = {Borg, Ruben} } @book {94534, title = {Shakespeare\&$\#$39;s Hamlet: Philosophical Perspectives}, year = {2018}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, address = {Oxford}, abstract = {Does philosophy gain or lose when it is embedded within literature or embodied by drama? Does literary criticism gain or lose when it turns to literary works as occasions for abstract reflection? Leading literary scholars and philosophers interrogate philosophical dimensions of Shakespeare{\textquoteright}s\ Hamlet\ with these urgent questions in view.
Scholars probe Hamlet{\textquoteright}s own insights, assess the significance of philosophy{\textquoteright}s literary-dramatic framing by this play, and trace the philosophically-relevant underpinnings revealed by historical transformations in\ Hamlet{\textquoteright}s\ reception. They focus on the play{\textquoteright}s thematizations of subjectivity, knowledge, sex, grief, self-theatricalization.
Examining Shakespeare{\textquoteright}s play from a philosophical standpoint sharpens the questions the play itself so famously poses: What counts as a proper response to injustice upon realizing that whatever one does, there can be no undoing of the initial wrong? What do our commitments to the dead amount to? How to persist in infusing significance into action while grasping the degradation of death and our own replaceability? Scholars at the forefront of their fields tackle these and other questions from a wide range of viewpoints, illuminating the central concerns of one of Shakespeare{\textquoteright}s masterpieces.}, author = {Tzachi Zamir} } @book {70390, title = {Thomas Hardy\&$\#$39;s Elegiac Prose and Poetry: Codes of Bereavement}, year = {2018}, note = {-}, publisher = {Palgrave}, organization = {Palgrave}, address = {London}, abstract = {This book examines the transition from traditional to modern elegy through a close study of Thomas Hardy{\textquoteright}s oeuvre and its commitment to mourning and remembrance. Hardy is usually read as an avowed elegist who writes against the collective forgetfulness typical of the late-Victorian era. But Hardy, as argued here, is dialectically implicated in the very cultural and psychological amnesia that he resists, as her book demonstrates by expanding the corpus of study beyond the spousal elegies (the {\textquotedblleft}Poems of 1912-1913{\textquotedblright}) to include a wide variety of poems, novels and short stories that deal with bereavement and mourning. Locating the modern aspect of Hardy{\textquoteright}s elegiac writing in this ambivalence and in the subversion of memory as unreliable, the book explores the textual moments at which Hardy challenges binary dichotomies such as forgetting vs. remembering, narcissism vs. unselfish commitment, grief vs. betrayal, the work of mourning vs. melancholia, presence vs. absence. The book{\textquoteright}s analysis allows us to relate Hardy{\textquoteright}s elegiac poetics, and particularly his description of the mourner as a writer, to shifting late-Victorian conceptualizations of death, memory, art, science and gender relations.}, author = {Galia Benziman} } @book {48853, title = {Ascent: Philosophy and Paradise Lost}, year = {2017}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, address = {Oxford}, author = {Tzachi Zamir} } @book {44204, title = {Flann O\&$\#$39;Brien: Problems with Authority}, year = {2017}, publisher = {Cork University Press}, organization = {Cork University Press}, address = {Cork}, author = {Borg, Ruben, Paul Fagan, John McCourt (Eds.)} } @book {80087, title = {V.S. Naipaul: Displacement and Autobiography}, year = {2015}, publisher = {Routledge}, organization = {Routledge}, address = {London}, author = {Levy, Judith} } @book {6316, title = {Romance and History}, year = {2015}, pages = {338}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, organization = {Cambridge University Press}, address = {Cambridge}, author = {Whitman, Jon (ed.)} } @book {6044, title = {The Subject of Holocaust Fiction}, year = {2015}, publisher = {Indiana University Press}, organization = {Indiana University Press}, address = {Bloomington}, author = {Emily M. Budick} } @book {6315, title = {Acts: Theater, Philosophy and the Performing Self}, year = {2014}, pages = {271}, publisher = {University of Michigan Press}, organization = {University of Michigan Press}, address = {Ann Arbor}, abstract = {

Why do people act? Why are other people drawn to watch them? How is acting as a performing art related to role-playing outside the theater? As the first philosophical study devoted to acting,\ Acts: Theater, Philosophy, and the Performing Self\ sheds light on some of the more evasive aspects of the acting experience{\textemdash} such as the import of the actor{\textquoteright}s voice, the ethical unease sometimes felt while embodying particular sequences, and the meaning of inspiration. Tzachi Zamir explores acting{\textquoteright}s relationship to everyday role-playing through a surprising range of examples of {\textquotedblleft}lived acting,{\textquotedblright} including pornography, masochism, and eating disorders. By unearthing the deeper mobilizing structures that underlie dissimilar forms of staged and non-staged role-playing,\ Acts\ offers a multi-layered meditation on the percolation from acting to life.

}, author = {Tzachi Zamir} } @book {6314, title = {Flann O\&$\#$39;Brien: Contesting Legacies}, year = {2014}, note = {https://rubenborg.huji.ac.il/publications/flann-obrien-contesting-legacies}, pages = {296}, publisher = {Cork University Press}, organization = {Cork University Press}, address = {Cork}, author = {Borg, Ruben and Fagan, Paul and Werner Huber (Eds.)} } @book {6624, title = {Feminist Theory Across Disciplines}, year = {2013}, pages = {258}, publisher = {Routledge}, organization = {Routledge}, address = {London}, author = {Shira Wolosky} } @book {7197, title = {Knowledge and Pain}, year = {2012}, publisher = {Rodopi}, organization = {Rodopi}, address = {Amsterdam}, editor = {Toker, Leona and Esther Cohen} } @book {6623, title = {The Riddles of Harry Potter: Secret Passages and Interpretive Quests}, year = {2012}, pages = {238}, publisher = {Palgrave}, organization = {Palgrave}, address = {London}, author = {Shira Wolosky} } @book {70389, title = {Narratives of Child Neglect in Romantic and Victorian Literature\ }, year = {2011}, note = {-}, publisher = {Palgrave}, organization = {Palgrave}, address = {London}, abstract = {Contextualizing the topos of the neglected child within a variety of discourses, this book challenges the assumption that the early nineteenth century witnessed a clear transition from a Puritan to a liberating approach to children and demonstrates that oppressive assumptions survive in major texts considered part of the Romantic cult of childhood.}, author = {Galia Benziman} } @book {7223, title = {Biblical Paradigms in Medieval English Literature}, year = {2011}, pages = {236}, author = {Lawrence Besserman} } @book {6628, title = {Kant and Milton}, year = {2010}, publisher = {Harvard University Press}, organization = {Harvard University Press}, address = {Cambridge, Mass.:}, author = {Sanford Budick} } @book {6625, title = {Poetry and Public Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America}, year = {2010}, pages = {254}, publisher = {Palgrave}, organization = {Palgrave}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Poetry and Public Discourse explores nineteenth-century poetry as it addresses and engages in major concerns of American cultural life. It focuses on gender, biblical politics, Revolutionary discourses and racial, sectional, and religious identities, as these contend and negotiate with each other in the shaping of a pluralist democratic polity. Nineteenth-century American poetry, far from being the self-reflective art object of twentieth-century aesthetic theory, offers a rhetorical arena in which civic, economic, and religious trends intersect with each other in mutual definition and investigation. Poetry emerges as a core impulse in the formation of American identity and cultural definition

}, author = {Shira Wolosky} } @book {6643, title = {Rethinking Labour in Africa, Past and Present}, year = {2010}, publisher = {Routledge}, organization = {Routledge}, address = {London}, editor = {Lynn Schler and Louise Bethlehem and Galia Sabar} } @book {6630, title = {Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction}, year = {2010}, pages = {240}, publisher = {Ohio University Press}, organization = {Ohio University Press}, abstract = {

In Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction, Leona Toker deals with narratives that explore cultural remissions and the conditions they set for the reader{\textquoteright}s experience of self-liberation. She is particularly interested in the Bahktinian carnivalesque, the literary mode that subverts and liberates a narrative{\textquoteright}s dominant atmosphere in festive or grim ways.

}, author = {Toker, Leona} } @book {6639, title = {Tales of Bluebeard and His Wives from Late Antiquity to Postmodern Times}, year = {2009}, pages = {193}, publisher = {Routledge}, organization = {Routledge}, address = {London}, author = {Shuli Barzilai} } @book {7222, title = {Natan Sharansky, Defending Identity}, year = {2008}, abstract = {

If the history of the twentieth century can be seen as a successful struggle to expand personal freedoms, then the history of the twenty-first century will be seen as a contest to assert cultural, ethnic, or religious identities. From the crisis in Europe where identity is seen as inimical to democratic freedoms, to the threats to identity posed by postmodern relativism and Marxism, to the corrosive dullness of identity-less cosmopolitanism, Sharansky conducts a philosophical tour of nations, regions and cities whose futures rest precariously on the struggle for identity. His purpose throughout is to recover this most valuable and essential political emotion, one that can reaffirm and underpin democratic societies. Together, identity and democracy assert a powerful and benign sense of purpose; divided, at odds with each other, they invite fundamentalism and rootlessness.

}, url = {http://www.amazon.com/Defending-Identity-Indispensable-Role-Democracy/dp/1433212048}, author = {Shira Wolosky and Natan Sharansky} } @book {6648, title = {Psychotherapy and the Everyday Life}, year = {2008}, pages = {226}, abstract = {

}, author = {Emily Miller Budick and Rami Aronzon} } @book {6626, title = {Tracing the Aesthetic Principle in Conrad\&$\#$39;s Novels}, year = {2008}, pages = {203}, publisher = {Palgrave}, organization = {Palgrave}, address = {London}, author = {Yael Levin} } @book {6621, title = {
Ethics and the Beast: A Speciesist Argument for Animal Liberation
}, year = {2007}, pages = {160}, publisher = {Princeton University Press}, organization = {Princeton University Press}, address = {Princeton}, author = {Tzachi Zamir} } @book {6620, title = {The Measureless Time of Joyce, Deleuze and Derrida}, year = {2007}, note = {

Keywords: Joycean Temporalities; Joyce and the Nonhuman Turn; Posthuman Temporalities; Time and Figuration; Posthuman Modernism.

}, pages = {176}, publisher = {Continuum}, organization = {Continuum}, address = {London}, abstract = {

In the Physics Aristotle describes time as something that either does not exist or exists barely and in an obscure manner. Ruben Borg argues that an attempt to grapple with this problem informs the narrative structure, imagery and complex rhetorical strategies of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. By examining the relation between time and processes of figuration in Joyce{\textquoteright}s fiction, this study engages with the challenges of grasping time as a multiplicity that resists representation and objective measurement. Joyce{\textquoteright}s lexical and rhetorical inventions are viewed as an attempt to describe time{\textquoteright}s characteristic movement in terms of waste, measureless excess or fading.

}, url = {http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-measureless-time-of-joyce-deleuze-and-derrida-9780826498373/}, author = {Borg, Ruben} } @book {6636, title = {Violence and Non-Violence in Africa}, year = {2007}, pages = {156}, abstract = {

This book offers a broad range of perspectives on major transformations in the research of labor in Africa contexts over the last twenty years. This is a groundbreaking work by social scientists and historians; adopting innovative paradigms in the study of African laborers, working classes and economies, it moves away from stringent Marxist perspectives towards more localized and fluid conceptions of materiality and productivity. Against the backdrop of increasing mobility of labor and capital, the authors demonstrate the need for a simultaneous consideration of local, national and transnational contexts. The collection of essays provides multiple perspectives on how African workers have negotiated changes and exploited opportunities in increasingly globalized workplaces, while at the same time confronting the impact of global capitalist expansion on local settings in Africa.

}, author = {Pal Ahluwalia and Louise Bethlehem and Ruth Ginio} } @book {7227, title = {Sacred and Secular in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures}, year = {2006}, pages = {238}, abstract = {

This book illuminates the pervasive interplay of {\textquoteright}sacred{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteright}secular{\textquoteright} phenomena in the literature, history, politics, and religion of the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods. The essays gathered here constitute a new way of applying a classic dichotomy to major cultural phenomena of the pre-modern era.

}, author = {Lawrence Besserman} } @book {6622, title = {
Double Vision: Moral Philosophy and Shakespearean Drama
}, year = {2006}, pages = {256}, publisher = {Princeton University Press}, organization = {Princeton University Press}, address = {Princeton}, author = {Tzachi Zamir} } @book {6635, title = {Skin Tight: Apartheid Literary Culture and its Aftermath
}, year = {2006}, pages = {145}, publisher = {Unisa Press, Brill}, organization = {Unisa Press, Brill}, author = {Louise Bethlehem} } @book {7225, title = {Aharon Appelfeld\&$\#$39;s Fiction: Acknowledging the Holocaust.}, year = {2004}, pages = {224}, url = {http://www.amazon.com/Aharon-Appelfelds-Fiction-Acknowledging-Literature/dp/0253344921}, author = {Emily Miller Budick} } @book {7230, title = {Shattered Vessels: Memory, Identity, and Creation in the Work of David Shahar}, year = {2004}, pages = {204}, publisher = {State University of New York Press (February 26, 2004)}, organization = {State University of New York Press (February 26, 2004)}, url = {http://www.amazon.com/Shattered-Vessels-Identity-Creation-Literature/dp/0791459209}, author = {Moshe Ron and Michal Ginsburg} } @book {7232, title = {The Cambridge History of American Literature}, year = {2004}, note = {

The Cambridge History of American Literature addresses the spectrum of new and established directions in American writing. An interdisciplinary distillation of American literary history, it weds the voice of traditional criticism with the diversity of interests that characterize contemporary literary studies. Volume 1 covers the colonial and early national periods, discussing authors ranging from Renaissance explorers to the poets and novelists of the new republic. It should prove an indispensable guide for scholars and students in the fields of English and American literatures and American history.

}, pages = {845}, author = {Shira Wolosky} } @book {6642, title = {Major Voices in Nineteenth-Century American Women{\textquoteright}s Poetry}, year = {2004}, publisher = {Toby Press}, organization = {Toby Press}, author = {Wolosky, Shira.} } @book {6041, title = {Partial Answers}, year = {2004}, abstract = {

Partial Answers a semiannual journal, Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas, edited by the English Department{\textquoteright}s Professor Leona Toker

}, url = {http://partialanswers.huji.ac.il/}, author = {Toker, Leona} } @book {6634, title = {The Art of Poetry}, year = {2002}, edition = {2nd}, author = {Shira Wolosky} } @book {7224, title = {Ideology and Jewish Identity in Israeli and American Literature}, year = {2001}, pages = {284}, abstract = {

Israeli and American critics debate what constitutes Jewish identity in modern Jewish literature.

}, url = {http://www.amazon.com/Ideology-Identity-Israeli-American-Literature/dp/0791450678}, author = {Emily Miller Budick} } @book {7226, title = {South Africa in the Global Imaginary}, year = {2001}, pages = {290}, publisher = {Duke University Press}, organization = {Duke University Press}, address = {Durham}, abstract = {

This special issue of\ Poetics Today\ explores the development of a South African literary identity in the face of its staggering cultural, historical, and linguistic diversity. The collection uses the idea of the "global imaginary" to explore the ways the outside world has constructed ideas about South African literature as well as the way South Africans themselves have fashioned their literary selfhood. Articles address the legacy of colonialism and apartheid and wrestle with the fact that in spite of the fact that there are eleven official languages in South Africa and that many of the cultures have historically relied on an oral tradition, the dominant works continue to be those that are written down, in English. As de Kock writes in his introduction, the collection "raises a multiplicity of questions about the colonization of culture." There has been a "trope of binary pairing," he writes, between white and black, civilized and backward, home and exile, colonizer and colonized, which obscures the richness and complexity of the South African literary tradition. This collection promises to at least begin to correct that oversimplification.

Contributors:\ Louise Bethlehem, Jonathan Crewe, Dirk Klopper, Leon de Kock, Loren Kruger, Sonja Laden, Simon Lewis, Peter Merrington, Patricia Watson Shariff, Pippa Skotnes

}, author = {Leon de Kock and Louise Bethlehem} } @book {6647, title = {Return from the Archipelago: Narratives of Gulag Survivors.}, year = {2001}, pages = {352}, publisher = {Indiana University Press}, organization = {Indiana University Press}, address = {Bloomington}, abstract = {

Return from the Archipelago\ is the first comprehensive historical survey and critical analysis of the vast body of narrative literature about the Soviet gulag. Leona Toker organizes and characterizes both fictional narratives and survivors{\textquoteright} memoirs as she explores the changing hallmarks of the genre from the 1920s through the Gorbachev era. Toker reflects on the writings and testimonies that shed light on the veiled aspects of totalitarianism, dehumanization, and atrocity. Identifying key themes that recur in the narratives-arrest, the stages of trial, imprisonment, labor camps, exile, escapes, special punishment, the role of chance, and deprivation.Toker discusses the historical, political, and social contexts of these accounts and the ethical and aesthetic imperative they fulfill. Her readings provide extraordinary insight into the prisoners{\textquoteright} experiences of the Soviet penal system. Special attention is devoted to the writings of Varlam Shalamov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, but many works that are not well known in the West, especially those by women, are addressed. Consideration is also given to events that recently brought many memoirs to light years after they were written. A pioneering book on an important subject, Return from the Archipelago is an authoritative resource for scholars in Russian history and literature.

}, url = {http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=19964}, author = {Toker, Leona} } @book {6637, title = {Once Below a Time}, year = {2000}, pages = {254}, publisher = {SUNY}, organization = {SUNY}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Highly original and theoretically wide-ranging, this book offers new insights into the origins of poetry. Working with much of the significant primary and secondary literature in psychoanalysis, particularly the theories of Julia Kristeva, the book skillfully sketches out a psychoanalytically enhanced theory of poetics through close readings of the works of Dylan Thomas. Through an intense dialogue with pivotal poems, it offers a "subjectivist" theory of poetic language, one that focuses on the interrelation between meaning and subjectivity in the dynamics of the poetic text. In this scheme, the "genesis of the speaking subject" is held to be a reenactment of old and new fantasies of origins, the reality of which is inaccessible to us--buried, as it were, "below time." Among these fantasies, the author also recognizes the psychoanalytic fantasy of origins that guides her own project.\ 

}, author = {Eynel Wardi} } @book {6627, title = {The Western Theory of Tradition: Terms and Paradigms of the Cultural Sublime}, year = {2000}, publisher = {Yale Press}, organization = {Yale Press}, address = {New Haven}, author = {Sanford Budick} } @book {6650, title = {Interpretation and Allegory: Antiquity to the Modern Period}, year = {2000}, pages = {513}, publisher = {Brill}, organization = {Brill}, abstract = {

This major investigation of the theory and practice of interpretation is unparalleled in design. Concentrating on interpretive allegory, its interdisciplinary approach simultaneously opens and organizes new perspectives on historic developments - from pagan, Jewish, Christian, and Islamic commentaries to postmodern critiques. Interpretation and Allegory: Antiquity to the Modern Period is the recipient of The Polonsky Foundation 2001 Award for Contributions to Interdisciplinary Study in the Humanities. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

}, author = {Jon Whitman} } @book {7231, title = {Dickens: The Orphan Condition}, year = {1999}, pages = {225}, publisher = {Fairleigh Dickinson University Press}, organization = {Fairleigh Dickinson University Press}, author = {Baruch Hochman} } @book {6640, title = {Lacan and the Matter of Origins}, year = {1999}, pages = {320}, abstract = {

acan and the Matter of Origins\ traces the development of Lacan{\textquoteright}s thinking about the role of the mother in psychical formation. It examines the conceptual struggle throughout his work over issues of maternal agency in relation to the constitution of human subjectivity, and the theoretical, historical, and autobiographical reasons for this struggle. Lacan is widely held to emphasize the paternal dimension of human subjectivity and the phallic signifier. This book demonstrates that the mother occupies a crucial position in the Lacanian project, even if the maternal relation is not systematically theorized. The maternal figure appears as a Cheshire Cat who fades away and reappears at different times.

}, url = {http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=312}, author = {Shuli Barzilai} } @book {6645, title = {Blacks and Jews in Literary Conversation}, year = {1998}, pages = {266}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, organization = {Cambridge University Press}, address = {Cambridge}, abstract = {

In an attempt to lend a more nuanced ear to the ongoing dialogue between African and Jewish Americans, Emily Budick examines the works of a range of writers, critics, and academics from the 1950s through the 1980s. This study records conversations both explicit, such as essays and letters, and indirect, such as the fiction of Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Alice Walker, Cynthia Ozick, Toni Morrison, and James Baldwin. The purpose is to understand how this dialogue has engendered misperceptions and misunderstandings, and how blacks and Jews in America have both sought and resisted assimilation.

}, author = {Emily Miller Budick} } @book {6649, title = {Chaucer{\textquoteright}s Biblical Poetics}, year = {1998}, pages = {352}, url = {http://www.amazon.com/Chaucers-Biblical-Poetics-Lawrence-Besserman/dp/B005Q7VG6Y}, author = {Lawrence Besserman} } @book {7229, title = {Rereading Texts / Rethinking Critical Presuppositions}, year = {1997}, pages = {350}, publisher = {Peter Lang Pub Inc (January 1997)}, organization = {Peter Lang Pub Inc (January 1997)}, abstract = {

he essays in this collection combine fresh interpretations of well known literary texts by leading critics (such as Frank Kermode, Sandra Gilbert, J. Hillis Miller, Barbara Hardy, Tony Tanner, and many others), those critics{\textquoteright} retrospective thinking about their individual professional development, and an implicit communal reflection on changes on the critical and cultural scene of our times. It shows a transition from closed systems to more open configurations and from a view of texts as autonomous to complex interactions between text and context. Within the latter framework, ethical, social, ideological, political (feminist, post-colonial), psychoanalytic, and biographical dimensions of various texts are explored.

}, url = {http://www.amazon.com/Rereading-Texts-Rethinking-Critical-Presuppositions/dp/082043213X}, author = {Shlomith Rimon-Kenan and Toker, Leona and Shuli Barzilai} } @book {7228, title = {A Glance beyond Doubt: Narration, Representation, Subjectivity}, year = {1996}, pages = {160}, publisher = {Ohio State University Press; 1 edition (September 1, 1996)}, organization = {Ohio State University Press; 1 edition (September 1, 1996)}, author = {Shlomith Rimon-Kenan} } @book {6646, title = {Nineteenth-Century American Romance: Genre and the Democratic Construction of Culture}, year = {1996}, pages = {186}, url = {http://www.amazon.com/Studies-Literary-Themes-Genres-Series/dp/0805709606}, author = {Emily Miller Budick} } @book {6644, title = {The Translatability of Cultures: Figurations of the Space Between}, year = {1996}, pages = {364}, url = {http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=2050}, author = {Sanford Budick and Wolfgang Iser} } @book {6641, title = {Language Mysticism: The Negative Way of Language in Eliot, Beckett and Celan}, year = {1995}, pages = {340}, author = {Shira Wolosky} } @book {7238, title = {Commitment in Reflection: Essays in Literature and Moral Philosophy}, year = {1994}, pages = {328}, publisher = {Routledge (December 1, 1993)}, organization = {Routledge (December 1, 1993)}, url = {http://www.amazon.com/Commitment-Reflection-Literature-Philosophy-Humanities/dp/0815314574}, author = {Toker, Leona} } @book {6638, title = {Engendering Romance}, year = {1994}, pages = {251}, url = {http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10910009?selectedversion=NBD10476323}, author = {Emily Miller Budick} } @book {6633, title = {Eloquent Reticence}, year = {1993}, pages = {225}, abstract = {

The importance of the ethics of form in literature has only recently gained broad recognition and has thus far been explored mainly from the position of moral philosophy and critical theory. Leona Toker develops a narratological approach to the subject, based on studying {\textquotedblleft}reticence{\textquotedblright} in works of fiction.

}, url = {http://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_english_language_and_literature_british_isles/58/}, author = {Toker, Leona} } @article {6632, title = {Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures}, year = {1989}, pages = {143}, author = {Toker, Leona} } @book {7240, title = {Chaucer and the Bible: A Critical Review of Research, Indexes, and Bibliography}, year = {1988}, pages = {432}, publisher = {Taylor \& Francis (1 December 1988)}, organization = {Taylor \& Francis (1 December 1988)}, url = {http://www.amazon.in/Chaucer-Bible-Bibliography-Reference-Humanities/dp/0824063406}, author = {Lawrence Besserman} } @book {7196, title = {Allegory: The Dynamics of an Ancient and Medieval Technique}, year = {1987}, pages = {1081}, abstract = {

Allegory is both a strategy for interpreting texts and a method for composing them. This book investigates the interplay between these interpretive and compositional traditions at critical points in their development. Jon Whitman analyzes a range of works in which the allegorical impulse develops, from the Stoic moral essay and the Roman mythological epic to the Neoplatonic exegetical treatise and the Christian spiritual encyclopedia. By examining important changes in approach to the logic of a text, the design of the world, and the organization of events, Whitman shows how the interpretive and poetic strategies of allegory increasingly overlap and broaden in scope in antiquity and the early Middle Ages. He explains how this interaction acquires an intensive form in the twelfth-century Cosmographia, which explicates the story of creation by devising allegorical characters to act out the narrative. Relating this early convergence of analytic and imaginative methods to broader critical concerns, Whitman shows how allegory constantly promotes the reassessment of its own formulations, a process that stimulates the complex allegorical movement of the late Middle Ages. Jon Whitman currently teaches English literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

}, url = {http://www.amazon.com/Allegory-Dynamics-Ancient-Medieval-Technique/dp/0674016459/ref=pd_sim_sbs_14_1?ie=UTF8\&dpID=4106yHM0GUL\&dpSrc=sims\&preST=_AC_UL160_SR107\%2C160_\&refRID=1493MC6XE2E645N7CRFR}, author = {Jon Whitman} } @book {7237, title = {Discourse in Psychoanalysis and Literature}, year = {1987}, pages = {208}, publisher = { Routledge (30 July 1987)}, organization = { Routledge (30 July 1987)}, abstract = {

The essays in this collection, first published in 1987, represent a collective attempt to listen with the third ear to the underhand ways the unspoken has of speaking, and to speak of these ways. By focusing on {\textquoteleft}discourse{\textquoteright} the volume is distinguished from traditional literature by its emphasis on rhetorical structures and textual strategies, and the investment of these structures with desire, power and other aspects of subjectivity, rather than the personality of the artist or the creative process. However, in this book the human dimension is not lost. By claiming that the structures in question are not merely linguistic, semiotic, or narratological (although they\ are\ all of these), the human dimension is returned- not {\textquoteleft}in the raw{\textquoteright}, as in traditional approaches, but through the traces it leaves in the text, as activated by its reading. This book is ideal for students of literature and psychoanalytical theory.

}, url = {http://www.amazon.co.uk/Discourse-Psychoanalysis-Literature-Shlomith-Rimmon-Kenan/dp/0416004628}, author = {Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan} } @book {7239, title = {The Return of the Reader: Reader Response Criticism}, year = {1987}, pages = {192}, publisher = {Methuen (August 10, 1987)}, organization = {Methuen (August 10, 1987)}, abstract = {

An introduction to work on reader-response criticism which reflects on the spectrum of alternative projects which reader-oriented criticism generates.

}, url = {http://www.amazon.com/The-Return-Reader-Reader-Response-Criticism/dp/0416344100}, author = {Elizabeth Freund} } @book {7236, title = {Shakespeare{\textquoteright}s Other Language}, year = {1987}, pages = {160}, publisher = { Methuen (January 1988)}, organization = { Methuen (January 1988)}, abstract = {

Ruth Nevo{\textquoteright}s book offers a reading of the last plays which invokes the findings and methods of post-psychoanalytic semiotics. Drawing on recent work in the reinterpretation of Freud by Lacan and others, she embarks on a brilliant analysis of "Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter{\textquoteright}s Tale, and "The Tempest" , which illuminates thier strange {\textquoteright}language{\textquoteright}.

}, author = {Ruth Nevo} } @book {7234, title = {Midrash and Literature}, year = {1986}, pages = {424}, publisher = {Yale Univ Pr; First Edition edition (April 1986)}, organization = {Yale Univ Pr; First Edition edition (April 1986)} } @book {7233, title = {The Dividing Muse: Images of Sacred Disjunction in Milton{\textquoteright}s Poetry.}, year = {1986}, pages = {224}, publisher = {Yale University Press (July 1, 1985)}, organization = {Yale University Press (July 1, 1985)}, author = {Sanford Budick} } @book {6629, title = {Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics}, year = {1983}, pages = {208}, publisher = {Routledge}, organization = {Routledge}, edition = {2nd}, address = {London}, abstract = {

What is a narrative? What is narrative fiction? How does it differ from other kinds of narrative? What featuers turn a discourse into a narrative text? Now widely acknowledged as one of the most significant volumes in its field,\ Narrative Fiction\ turns its attention to these and other questions.

}, author = {Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan} }