LEADER 03203nam 2200397 450 001 9910155148903321 005 20230126223245.0 010 $a1-4985-0707-7 035 $a(CKB)4340000000023635 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4764775 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000023635 100 $a20161223h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aArt and the artist in the contemporary Israeli novel /$fJoseph Lowin 210 1$aLanham, Maryland :$cLexington Books,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (195 pages) 311 $a1-4985-0706-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aPresents studies of eight contemporary works of Israeli fiction by eight major Israeli novelists. It deals with a society where drama, lived in reality but also in the mind, is a central moving force. What this book shows is the ways these texts deal with the themes of creativity and the creation of a work of art and with the way art and artists are portrayed in a culture that is often perceived as being otherwise preoccupied. The book involves close and painstaking readings of these novels and travels along a broad spectrum of themes. It also shows how these texts engage in dialogue with texts of the Jewish tradition, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, with each other. Two major points of the book are its emphasis on the work as literary art and the way the same themes often find their way into the varied works created by this literary generation. The book notes two tendencies among Israeli writers: that there is a great "urge to tell" their story and the story of Israel; and that to make clear not only what is "happening" in these novels but also what is "going on" in their works of art, the novelist take the leisurely route of "literary emerging"-- slowly but surely leading the reader to see how art emerges from the most prosaic of events. Despite its easygoing tone, the book still claims to be a serious book, dealing with serious issues, both ethical and metaphysical. One of the cases this book endeavors to make is that one of the main goals of contemporary Israeli writers is to insert their works of art--via a midrashic mode of writing in which previous texts are constantly being re-written and being made modern--as links in the great chain of the Jewish textual tradition. These novels often refer back to biblical tales and to rabbinic ways of reading them. But they also demonstrate how the writers themselves and their books and are also a part of that tradition. Most of all, however, these writers are supremely aware that they are artists and that they have a particular responsibility to their art. 606 $aJews$xSocial conditions 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast 615 0$aJews$xSocial conditions. 676 $a296.0157 700 $aLowin$b Joseph$01249286 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910155148903321 996 $aArt and the artist in the contemporary Israeli novel$92895127 997 $aUNINA