Overview
In her penetrating new study, Na'ama Rokem observes that prose writing--more than poetry, drama, or other genres--came to signify a historic rift that resulted in loss and disenchantment. In Prosaic Conditions, Rokem treats prose as a signifying practice--that is, a practice that creates meaning. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, prose emerges in competition with other existing practices, specifically, the practice of performance. Using Zionist literature as a test case, Rokem examines the ways in which Zionist authors put prose to use, both as a concept and as a literary mode. Writing prose enables these authors to grapple with historical, political, and spatial transformations and to understand the interrelatedness of all of these changes.
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- ISBN-13: 9780810128675
- ISBN-10: 0810128675
- Publisher: Northwestern University Press
- Publish Date: February 2013
- Dimensions: 9.01 x 6.06 x 0.52 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.75 pounds
- Page Count: 248
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