Prosaic Conditions

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Prosaic Conditions is written by Na'ama Rokem and published by Northwestern University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0810166399 (ISBN 10) and 9780810166394 (ISBN 13).

In this book, the author observes that prose writing -- more than poetry, drama, or other genres -- came to signify a historic rift that resulted in loss and disenchantment. The author treats prose as a signifying practice -- that is, a practice that creates meaning. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, prose emerges in competition with other existing practices, specifically, the practice of performance. Using Zionist literature as a test case, the author examines the ways in which Zionist authors put prose to use, both as a concept and as a literary mode. Writing prose enables these authors to grapple with historical, political, and spatial transformations and to understand the interrelatedness of all of these changes.