Ebook: Rhetoric and nation: the formation of Hebrew national culture, 1880-1990

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.