John Brinckerhoff Jackson has theorized the vernacular landscape as one that reflects a way of life guided by tradition and custom, distanced from the larger world of politics and law. The quotidian space is shaped by the everyday culture of its inhabitants. In Place and Ideology in Contemporary Hebrew Literature, Grumberg sets anchor in this and other contemporary theories of space and place, then embarks on subtle close readings of recent Israeli fiction that demonstrate how literature in practice can complicate those discourses. Literature in Israel over the past twenty-five years tends...
John Brinckerhoff Jackson has theorized the vernacular landscape as one that reflects a way of life guided by tradition and custom, distanced from ...
An anthology of sinister tales written since the early-20th century by the foremost Hebrew authors, including S.Y. Agnon, Leah Goldberg, and Amos Oz, reveals a darkness at the foundation of Hebrew culture.
An anthology of sinister tales written since the early-20th century by the foremost Hebrew authors, including S.Y. Agnon, Leah Goldberg, and Amos Oz, ...
