TY - BOOK ID - 80832997 TI - Literature, History, Choice PY - 2013 SN - 9781443853842 1443853844 1443852511 9781443852517 1306166624 PB - Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars Publishing DB - UniCat KW - History in literature. KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Postmodernism (Literature) KW - Literary movements KW - Literature, Modern KW - Crepuscolarismo KW - Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, KW - Czaczkes, Samuel Joseph, KW - Agnon, S. Y., KW - Agnon, Shemuʼel Yosef, KW - Shamūʼīl Yūsuf ʻAghnūn, KW - ʻAghnūn, Shamūʼīl Yūsuf, KW - Agnon, Shay, KW - Agnon, Samuel Joseph, KW - Ṭshaṭshḳis, Shemuʼel Yosef, KW - ʻAgnon, Shai, KW - Agnon, S. J., KW - ʻAjnūn, Shamūʼīl Yūsuf, KW - Agnón, Schmuel Iosef, KW - Agnon, Shmuėl Iosef, KW - Agnon, Šmuel Josef, KW - Агнон, Шмуэл-Йосеф, KW - עגנון, שמואל יוסף, KW - עגנון, ש"י, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Agnon, Samuel Joseph UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80832997 AB - Starting with a discussion on the elements of the genre of alternative (counterfactual) history and on its place between the poles of historical determinism and relativism, this book develops a literary theory of the historical alternativeness principle and applies it to the reading of The City with All That is Therein (Ir u-mloa)one of the most important and less-studied books of the greatest Israeli writer, Nobel Prize winner S.Y. Agnon (1887-1970). The investigation reveals that this principle is by no means inherent solely in modernism and postmodernism, but lies at the very basis of the reading process, particularly at the levels of plot and character origination, and historical and historiographical conceptions that underlie the authoras imagination. - - The book is intended for all who are interested in modern literature and theory. - - ER -