Department of Hebrew Literature
Subject: Food, drinks and affect in the new Hebew literature.
Supervisor: Prof. Giddon Ticotsky.
Abstract: Representing food in a literaturary text is an interesting case study for the representation of the "real" world in the work of art: the strategies used by the text reveal the clash between the mimetic and the metaphorical poles, which is encapsulated in every work of art. In my doctoral thesis I will seek to deepen this investigation and bring the spotlight from the writer describing his experience and memories to the reader who interprets and feels through the words. I will ask how the literary text creates physical-mental moments and how it "feels" to be fed, starved or drunked through words. Recreating the bodily experience through the verbal description involves active reading, adoption and adaptation of the narrative by the reader and then a creation of a new bodily experience. By tracing the reading process I will focus on the Affect of the food on the recipients of the work, on the way words are translated into a suggestive sensation and on it's place in the Interpretation of literary works.
Graduate of the Honors Program for Outstanding MA Students, 2019–2021