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In her penetrating new study, Na'ama Rokem observes that prose writingmore than poetry, drama, or other genrescame to signify a historic rift that resulted in loss and disenchantment. In Prosaic Conditions, Rokem treats prose as a signifying practicethat 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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Preface One: Prose Regnant: World, State and Subject in Hegel’s Lectures on Aesthetics Two: Heinrich Heine, Explorer of the Current Prosaic Condition Three: Meditated Situatedness in the Reception of Heinrich Heine Four: Theodor Herzl’s Technocratic World-Making in Prose Five: Haim Nahman Bialik’s Icy River of Prose Six: Heine and the Israeli Novel Conclusion Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography

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      Publisher: Northwestern University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 3/30/2013 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780810128675, 978-0810128675
      ISBN10: 0810128675
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      Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

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      Book Synopsis
      In her penetrating new study, Na'ama Rokem observes that prose writingmore than poetry, drama, or other genrescame to signify a historic rift that resulted in loss and disenchantment. In Prosaic Conditions, Rokem treats prose as a signifying practicethat 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.

      Table of Contents
      Preface One: Prose Regnant: World, State and Subject in Hegel’s Lectures on Aesthetics Two: Heinrich Heine, Explorer of the Current Prosaic Condition Three: Meditated Situatedness in the Reception of Heinrich Heine Four: Theodor Herzl’s Technocratic World-Making in Prose Five: Haim Nahman Bialik’s Icy River of Prose Six: Heine and the Israeli Novel Conclusion Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography

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