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Thesis and Dissertation

Ph.D. Thesis – Seeing and Meaning: A Reading of Raymond Carver's Stories

Advisor: Prof. Baruch Hochman

Book

The Visual Poetics of Raymond Carver. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield (Lexington Books), 2010. 230 pages. Paperback Edition: 2012.   

Articles in Refereed Journals

"A Damselfly Over a Lake: Nature and Childhood in Photobooks of Children in The Kibbutz." Dibur 17-16 (Spring 2024-Fall 2024).

https://shc.stanford.edu/arcade/publications/dibur/jewish-ecologies/damselfly-over-lake-nature-and-childhood-photobooks

"Tracing Back my Own Footsteps": Space, Walking and Memory in 'The Seven' by Nathan Shaham." BGU Review (Summer 2017) (Attached).

http://in.bgu.ac.il/en/heksherim/Pages/2017.aspx

"Through a Torn Net: Repetition and Singularity the Fiction of Yeshayahu Koren."  Mikan: Journal for Hebrew Literary Studies 16 (2016): 106-125.  (Attached)

"What Used to Lie Outside the Frame: Boundaries of Photograph, Subjectivity and Fiction in Three Novels by J.M. Coetzee," Journal of Literary Studies (JLS) 26.4 (December 2013): 59-79.

"Sunt lacrimae rerum: Ekphrasis and Empathy in Three Encounters between a Text and a Picture," Word and Image, Vol. 25:3 (2009): 232-242.

"I don't do motion shots": Photography, Movement and Change in Raymond Carver's Stories," The Raymond Carver Review 1 (Winter 2007): 33-52.

Chapters/Articles in Books (Refereed)

"'Days of Sun, Playing, and Dreams': Innocence, Loss, and Nostalgia in Photography Books of Children in the Kibbutz," in Photography in Children's Literature. Edited by Elina Druker and Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer, 255-273. Amsterdam: John Benjamis Publishing company, 2023.

"Crossing Literary Borderlines in "A Simple Heart" by Gustav Flaubert"

in Borderlines: Essays on artistic and conceptual practices of mapping places. Edited by Edwin Seroussi and Ruthie Abeliovich, 58-68. De Gruyter Press, 2019.

"Small Good Things: Symbols and Descriptive Details in Raymond Carver's Short Fiction," Critical Insights: Raymond Carver, 187-200. Hackensack, NJ: Salem Press/EBSCO, 2013.

"Teaching Carver at the Intersection of Narrative Study and Visual Discourse." In Carver Across the Curriculum: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Teaching the Fiction and Poetry of Raymond Carver, edited by Paul Grant,139-151. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010.

"Short History of Cliché or Restore the Image's Lost Parts." In Popular and Canonical: Literary Dialogues, edited by Yael Shapira, Omri Herzog and Tamar S. Hess, 31-39. Tel Aviv: Resling, 2007 (Hebrew).

Open University Books

Author of six chapters in A Guide for Landmarks in Western Literature: Cervantes, Homer, Sappho, Ovid, Virgil. Defoe (2019)

Author of three chapters in the new edition of "The Poetics of Fiction" (2016).

Co-author of two chapters in Diengot, Nilli (ed.). Landmarks of Literary Criticism in the West, 273-351, 455-528.   

Book Reviews

"Harsh and Hopeful World: Review of Gordon Lish, Collected Fiction," The American Book Review 33.4 (May-June 2012).

Accepted for Publication

"‘Endeavoring to speak his own language’: Insights from Hebrew Translations of Flann O’Brien," Palimsets, Cork University Press (forthcoming).