Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-443) and index.
Contents:
Introduction : nation and discourse -- Politics and letters : Ah'ad Ha-Am's Rhetoric of the Nation -- Language and pedagogy : Moshe Smilansky's H'awaja Nazar -- Literary criticism as nationalist cartography : Joseph Hayyim Brenner and The Land of Israel Genre and its Accouterments -- The rhetoric of historical anxiety : David Ben-Gurion and Meir Yaari -- History and myth: Moshe Shamir's He Walked through the Fields -- History and mourning : the reception of Moshe Shamir's He Walked through the Fields -- National aesthetics in crisis : Amos Oz's political writings -- The tussle with the Zionist dream : Yaakov Shabtai's Past Continuous -- A sentimental journey : Dan Miron's Moral Landscape -- Rethinking the Hebrew discourse of the nation.
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