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Adam Rovner
Publications - 7
Citations - 55
Adam Rovner is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Hebrew literature & Shadow (psychology). The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 7 publications receiving 53 citations.
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Alternate History: The Case of Nava Semel's IsraIsland and Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union
TL;DR: In this paper, the development of the genre of alternate history, also called allohistory, is discussed and the authors argue that it may be treated as a philosophical genre that meditates on contingency and determinism.
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Instituting the Holocaust: Comic Fiction and the Moral Career of the Survivor
TL;DR: This paper investigated whether comic works of Holocaust literature really pose significant ethical problems and concluded that humour is an inappropriate means of representing the cruelties inflicted by the Nazis and the suffering experienced by their victims.
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Jewish Geographies: Jabotinsky and Modernism
TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between aesthetic modernism and collectivist nationalism is explored in the context of early European literary modernisms and their associated socio-political contexts, and the authors conclude that scholars can profitably locate Jabotinsky's creative output of the 1920s within the nexus of early aesthetic modernist and collectivism.
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The Shape of Time in Microfiction: Alex Epstein and the Search for Lost Time
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a general theory of microfiction that focuses on the formal elements of the genre's poetics, arguing that a symmetry exists between microfiction's contracted spatialization, and the compression-and hence violation-of the reader's anticipation.