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With both feet on the clouds : fantasy in Israeli literature / edited by Danielle Gurevitch, Elana Gomel, Rani Graff.

Contributor(s): Series: Israel (Boston, Mass.)Publication details: Brighton, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (309 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1618110683
  • 9781618110688
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 892.4/0915 23
LOC classification:
  • PJ5012.F35 I6313 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""What is Fantasy?""; ""What Is Reality?""; ""What is Unimaginable?""; ""May He Come in Haste: Urban Fantasy in Soothsayer by Asaf Ashery""; ""Etgar Keret�s Fantastic Reality""; ""Postmodern Jewish Superstition in David Grossman�s To the End of the Land""; ""Dybbuk, Husband, Home: Shmuel Hasfari and the Fantastic Tradition in Israeli Theater""; ""Magical Realism in Israeli Cinema""; ""The Grand High Witch of Dreams""; ""The Man from the Yellow Star""; ""Why Doesn�t It Rain Fish Here?""
""Kosher Vampires: Jews, Vampires, and Prejudice""""Travel Literature: The Itinerary of an Armchair Traveler�s Journey to Eretz Israel in a Seventeenth-Century Yiddish Story""; ""Ghost Stories in Medieval Hebrew Folktales: The Case of Sefer Hasidim and Sippurei Ha-Ari1""; ""A Terrible Fable and Enchanting Fiction: The Story of Joseph De-La Reina and Its Reflections in Two Novels of Yehoshua Bar Yosef""; ""The Borders of Messianic Imagination in Jewish Thinking""
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Originally published in Hebrew in 2009 by Graf Press and the Heksherim Institute at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev under title: ʻIm shete ha-raglayim ʻamoḳ ba-ʻananim : fantasy in Hebrew literature, a selection of essays.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""What is Fantasy?""; ""What Is Reality?""; ""What is Unimaginable?""; ""May He Come in Haste: Urban Fantasy in Soothsayer by Asaf Ashery""; ""Etgar Keret�s Fantastic Reality""; ""Postmodern Jewish Superstition in David Grossman�s To the End of the Land""; ""Dybbuk, Husband, Home: Shmuel Hasfari and the Fantastic Tradition in Israeli Theater""; ""Magical Realism in Israeli Cinema""; ""The Grand High Witch of Dreams""; ""The Man from the Yellow Star""; ""Why Doesn�t It Rain Fish Here?""

""Kosher Vampires: Jews, Vampires, and Prejudice""""Travel Literature: The Itinerary of an Armchair Traveler�s Journey to Eretz Israel in a Seventeenth-Century Yiddish Story""; ""Ghost Stories in Medieval Hebrew Folktales: The Case of Sefer Hasidim and Sippurei Ha-Ari1""; ""A Terrible Fable and Enchanting Fiction: The Story of Joseph De-La Reina and Its Reflections in Two Novels of Yehoshua Bar Yosef""; ""The Borders of Messianic Imagination in Jewish Thinking""

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