Notes on Contributors

Ruth Amossy, professor of French literature and theory of literature at Tel Aviv University, is the author of several books on artists related to the surrealist movement (J. Gracq, S. Dali) and on stereotypes and cliches. She also wrote Les idees recues (1991) and, with Anne Herschberg Pierrot, Stereotypes et cliches (1997). She is the editor of Images de soi dans le discours (1999) and has recently published a book on argumentation, L’Argumentation dans le discours: Discours politique, litterature d’idees, fiction (2000).

Ziva Ben-Porat is associate professor of poetics and comparative literature as well as director of the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics at Tel Aviv University. Her publications include Lyrical Poetry and the Lyrics of Pop (1989) (in Hebrew) and Autumn in Hebrew Poetry (1991) (in Hebrew). She has also written many articles, including “The Poetics of Literary Allusion,” Poetics and Theory of Literature 1 (1976); “Method in Madness: Notes on the Structure of Parody, Based on Mad’s T.V. Satires,” Poetics Today 1 (1979); “Represented Reality and Literary Models: European Autumn on Israeli Soil,” Poetics Today 7(1) (1986); and, “Poetics of the Homeric Simile and Theory of [Poetic] Simile,” Poetics Today 13(4) (1993). Her current research includes intertextuality, literary and cultural presentations, and representations.

Seymour Chatman is professor emeritus of rhetoric and film and professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include The Later Style of Henry James (1972), Story and Discourse (1978), Antonioni, or the Surface of the World (1985), and Coming to Terms (1990). He edited, with Guido Fink, Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’avventura: A Screenplay (1989) and has published numerous articles on narrative structure and the relation of novels to films.

Lilach Lachman lectures in the Department of Poetics and Comparative Literature at Tel Aviv University. The essay in this issue is part of her research on the poetics of time and space in (post) Romantic poetry. She is preparing a book on subjectivity in modern Hebrew poetry with the title “Each One the Last of Them.”

Vered Shemtov teaches Hebrew language and literature at the Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages, Stanford University. Her Ph.D. thesis is entitled “Prosody as Content, Ideology as Form: A New Approach to Prosodic Theory.”

Meir Sternberg is Artzt Professor of Poetics and Comparative Literature at Tel Aviv University, editor of Poetics Today, and Israel Prize laureate. His publications include Expositional Modes and Temporal Ordering in Fiction (1978), The Poetics of Biblical Narrative: Ideological Literature and the Drama of Reading (1985), and Hebrew between Cultures: Group Portraits and National Literature (1998).

Hana Wirth-Nesher is on the faculty of the Department of English at Tel Aviv University and coordinator of the Samuel L. and Perry Haber Chair on the Study of the Jewish Experience in the United States. She is the author of City Codes: Reading the Modern Urban Novel (1996) and is the editor of What Is Jewish Literature? (1994), New Essays on Call it Sleep (1996), and the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature. She is currently completing a book to be entitled Call It English: The Languages of Jewish American Writing.

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