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What is Fantasy?

  • Danielle Gurevitch
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With Both Feet on the Clouds
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© 2019 Academic Studies Press, Boston, USA

© 2019 Academic Studies Press, Boston, USA

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter 1
  2. Contents 5
  3. Acknowledgements 7
  4. Introduction 9
  5. I. DEFINITIONS AND DEBATE
  6. What is Fantasy? 11
  7. What Is Reality? 26
  8. What is Unimaginable? 39
  9. II. REALISTIC FANTASY AND FANTASTIC REALISM IN CONTEMPORARY ISRAELI LITERATURE
  10. May He Come in Haste: Urban Fantasy in Soothsayer by Asaf Ashery 56
  11. Etgar Keret’s Fantastic Reality 87
  12. Postmodern Jewish Superstition in David Grossman’s To the End of the Land 103
  13. III. VISIONS OF HEAVEN AND HELL: THEATER, CINEMA AND CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
  14. Dybbuk, Husband, Home: Shmuel Hasfari and the Fantastic Tradition in Israeli Theater 112
  15. Magical Realism in Israeli Cinema 141
  16. The Grand High Witch of Dreams 163
  17. IV. DIASPORA DREAMS: CULTURAL ROOTS OF JEWISH/ISRAELI FANTASY
  18. The Man from the Yellow Star 170
  19. Why Doesn’t It Rain Fish Here? 190
  20. Kosher Vampires: Jews, Vampires, and Prejudice 199
  21. V. “Messiah Does Not Call Back”: Fantasy in Jewish Sources and Ancient Jewish Literature
  22. Travel Literature: The Itinerary of an Armchair Traveler’s Journey to Eretz Israel in a Seventeenth-Century Yiddish Story 207
  23. Ghost Stories in Medieval Hebrew Folktales: The Case of Sefer Hasidim and Sippurei Ha-Ari 220
  24. A Terrible Fable and Enchanting Fiction: The Story of Joseph De-La Reina and Its Reflections in Two Novels of Yehoshua Bar Yosef 248
  25. The Borders of Messianic Imagination in Jewish Thinking 263
  26. Appendices
  27. Israeli Adult Fantasy and Science Fiction Published From 1948 to 2011 282
  28. Contributors 287
  29. Index 291
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781618110688-003

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter 1
  2. Contents 5
  3. Acknowledgements 7
  4. Introduction 9
  5. I. DEFINITIONS AND DEBATE
  6. What is Fantasy? 11
  7. What Is Reality? 26
  8. What is Unimaginable? 39
  9. II. REALISTIC FANTASY AND FANTASTIC REALISM IN CONTEMPORARY ISRAELI LITERATURE
  10. May He Come in Haste: Urban Fantasy in Soothsayer by Asaf Ashery 56
  11. Etgar Keret’s Fantastic Reality 87
  12. Postmodern Jewish Superstition in David Grossman’s To the End of the Land 103
  13. III. VISIONS OF HEAVEN AND HELL: THEATER, CINEMA AND CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
  14. Dybbuk, Husband, Home: Shmuel Hasfari and the Fantastic Tradition in Israeli Theater 112
  15. Magical Realism in Israeli Cinema 141
  16. The Grand High Witch of Dreams 163
  17. IV. DIASPORA DREAMS: CULTURAL ROOTS OF JEWISH/ISRAELI FANTASY
  18. The Man from the Yellow Star 170
  19. Why Doesn’t It Rain Fish Here? 190
  20. Kosher Vampires: Jews, Vampires, and Prejudice 199
  21. V. “Messiah Does Not Call Back”: Fantasy in Jewish Sources and Ancient Jewish Literature
  22. Travel Literature: The Itinerary of an Armchair Traveler’s Journey to Eretz Israel in a Seventeenth-Century Yiddish Story 207
  23. Ghost Stories in Medieval Hebrew Folktales: The Case of Sefer Hasidim and Sippurei Ha-Ari 220
  24. A Terrible Fable and Enchanting Fiction: The Story of Joseph De-La Reina and Its Reflections in Two Novels of Yehoshua Bar Yosef 248
  25. The Borders of Messianic Imagination in Jewish Thinking 263
  26. Appendices
  27. Israeli Adult Fantasy and Science Fiction Published From 1948 to 2011 282
  28. Contributors 287
  29. Index 291
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