Yael Segalovitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1484063 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yael Segalovitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yael |
| FAMILY NAME | Segalovitz |
| SIGNATURE | SEGALOVITZ Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7262-5734 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“Probably Not Book Learned at All”
This article explores Virginia Woolf's and Clarice Lispector's bold modernist challenge to the twentieth-century assumption that sustained attention is the sole legitimate mode of reading. In scenes of reading from To the Lighthouse and Near to the Wild Heart, and in their essays, Woolf and Lispector expose and contest the gendered assumptions underpinning hierarchies of readerly value. Their male characters project onto women forms of textual en…
Psychoanaliterature, or, how the American relational move made Are You My Mother? and The Argonauts
This article explores the emergence of a new textual tendency in turn-of-themillennium United States, where psychoanalytic theory, fiction writing, selfwriting, and literary scholarship converge.I call the body of works established at this conjunction 'psychoanaliterature'.My analysis looks at two examples, Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother?(2012) and Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts (2015).I argue that at the centre of these two works, paradigmati…
Queering Identity Politics in Shimon Adaf’s Aviva-No
This article offers a queer reading of Shimon Adaf’s volume of poetry, Aviva-No (2009), analyzing it in conjunction with his recent collection of essays on identity formation, Ani aherim (I am others) (2018). Adaf’s oeuvre has been primarily studied through the lens of ethnicity and race. This article demonstrates that gender plays a key role in his body of work. Aviva-No, which is a lamentation for the poet’s sister, destabilizes the boundaries …
A Leap of Faith into Moses
This chapter argues that Moses and Monotheism invites its readers to approach it in a state of “evenly-suspended attention,” the mindset that Freud recommends his colleagues practice in the therapeutic scene. This method of reading is contrasted with the prominent one in the discipline of literature, namely, close reading. Developed by the Anglo-American New Critics around the time of Moses ’ publication, close reading depends on what Freud terms…
A Leap of Faith into Moses
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A Leap of Faith into Moses
A Leap of Faith into Moses
This chapter argues that Moses and Monotheism invites its readers to approach it in a state of “evenly-suspended attention,” the mindset that Freud recommends his colleagues practice in the therapeutic scene. This method of reading is contrasted with the prominent one in the discipline of literature, namely, close reading. Developed by the Anglo-American New Critics around the time of Moses ’ publication, close reading depends on what Freud terms…
Queering Identity Politics in Shimon Adaf’s Aviva-No
This article offers a queer reading of Shimon Adaf’s volume of poetry, Aviva-No (2009), analyzing it in conjunction with his recent collection of essays on identity formation, Ani aherim (I am others) (2018). Adaf’s oeuvre has been primarily studied through the lens of ethnicity and race. This article demonstrates that gender plays a key role in his body of work. Aviva-No, which is a lamentation for the poet’s sister, destabilizes the boundaries …
Psychoanaliterature, or, how the American relational move made Are You My Mother? and The Argonauts
This article explores the emergence of a new textual tendency in turn-of-themillennium United States, where psychoanalytic theory, fiction writing, selfwriting, and literary scholarship converge.I call the body of works established at this conjunction 'psychoanaliterature'.My analysis looks at two examples, Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother?(2012) and Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts (2015).I argue that at the centre of these two works, paradigmati…
“Probably Not Book Learned at All”
This article explores Virginia Woolf's and Clarice Lispector's bold modernist challenge to the twentieth-century assumption that sustained attention is the sole legitimate mode of reading. In scenes of reading from To the Lighthouse and Near to the Wild Heart, and in their essays, Woolf and Lispector expose and contest the gendered assumptions underpinning hierarchies of readerly value. Their male characters project onto women forms of textual en…
Philosophy (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Faith (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Queer (2 works) · Queer theory (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Theology (2 works)