Genesin sṭail

Precisely in view of the canonical approaches to the interpretation of Gnessin's masterful work, the book 'Gnessin Style' seeks to offer the study of Hebrew literature a different style of reading and thought, a new 'style' of critical writing. At the center of each chapter of the book stands something small that exists on the fringes of the big issues, something seemingly modest: one sentence, a trivial cause, stuttering and turmoil, what is canceled and withdrawn, what does not take a position, action that is not done, the heat carried in the air. But it is precisely from this point of departure that the reading moves deployed here seek to establish theoretical, historiographical and interpretive lessons that go big. In one sense, therefore, 'Gnessin Style' is an essay on the work of Uri Nissan Gnessin, and he seeks to return it to the center of research more than a century after it was written, and to read it as it has not been read before. In a broader sense, 'Gnessin Style' is also a bold and original essay on the relationship between literature and theory, on the interpretive sensibilities of the present moment, and on the need to formulate a new kind of critical ethos for the thought of twentieth - century Hebrew literature. --- online translation.