Yazar: Elana Gomel

The Poetics of Genre in the Contemporary Novel investigates the role of genre in the contemporary novel: taking its departure from the observation that numerous contemporary novelists make use of pop …

Why do Israelis dislike fantasy? Put so bluntly, the question appears frivolous. But in fact, it goes to the deepest sources of Israeli historical identity and literary tradition. Uniquely among deve …

Space is a central topic in cultural and narrative theory today, although in most cases theory assumes Newtonian absolute space. However, the idea of a universal homogeneous space is now obsolete. Bl …

Space is a central topic in cultural and narrative theory today, although in most cases theory assumes Newtonian absolute space. However, the idea of a universal homogeneous space is now obsolete. Bl …

THE JEWISH BOOK OF HORROR Edited by Josh Schlossberg Horror is part of the human condition, but few peoples across the ages know it quite like the Jews. From slavery to pogroms to the Holocaust to an …

Leire always knew she was different. Her flaming red hair, her uncanny skill with the needle, and most or all, her curiosity, set her apart in the prison-city of Hiria, dominated by the mysterious Bl …

The Anthropocene and the Undead describes how our experience of an increasingly erratic environment and the idea of the undead are more closely linked than the obvious zombie horde signaling the end …

What if there are other timelines, other histories, other Jews? Would they still have a covenant with the one God, or would they know strange gods? Would they have survived banishment, pogrom and Hol …

This handbook is the first-of-its-kind comprehensive overview of fantasy outside the Anglo-American hegemony. While most academic studies of fantasy follow the well-trodden path of focusing on Tolkie …

In sechzehn Geschichten nehmen uns sechzehn israelische Autor:innen auf eine phantastische Reise mit. Dabei treffen wir etwa auf hochentwickelte Mäuse, die einen Krieg gegen die Menschheit führen, au …

In sechzehn Geschichten nehmen uns sechzehn israelische Autor:innen auf eine phantastische Reise mit. Dabei treffen wir etwa auf hochentwickelte Mäuse, die einen Krieg gegen die Menschheit führen, au …

Waking up on the beach in Greece after a midnight party, Cleo, a British-Greek tourist, sees a stranger sitting next to her. The stranger has a giant spider on his forearm. So begins an incredible od …

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This edited collection offers new perspectives on perceived paradoxes in Israel’s religious heritage, with a particular focus on the Garden of Eden narrative and descriptions of Israel’s God. The cha …

Quattordici storie visionarie provenienti da ogni angolo del mondo, per esaminare a fondo un argomento sotteso a qualsiasi opera letteraria: il rapporto tra l’amore e il tempo. Quattordici racconti d …

Fourteen visionary stories from every corner of the world, to examine in depth a subject underlying any literary work: the relationship between love and time. Fourteen tales of the purest science fic …