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2006-2007 Fellows

Na'ama Rokem

Stanford University
Department of Comparative Literature

Na’ama Rokem is a PhD candidate in the department of Comparative Literature at Stanford. She completed her B.A. in English and Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has studied Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University, the Free University of Berlin and Stanford University. At Stanford, she has taught Writing and Rhetoric and worked for the Center for the Study of the Novel.

Project Summary

Prose denotes both a literary mode (prose as a type of text) and a modality (the prosaic, the mundane, the contingent): both a thing in the world and a way of looking at the world. Rokem’s dissertation, Prosaic Conditions, whose working title is borrowed from Hegel’s lectures on Aesthetic, uses this dense and undertheorized concept to discuss the junctures of politics and literary form in modernity. Starting with Hegel and his contemporaries, continuing with the German-Jewish reception of Hegel, and finally reaching Zionist culture in German and Hebrew, she maps the function of prose and the prosaic as figures of modernity.