Scholars@Duke
Reut Israela Ben-yaakov

Reut Israela Ben-yaakov

Postdoctoral Associate
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies

Scholarly Works

“It’s Doubtful...It Isn’t Even Logical, It Can’t Be Proved, and It’s Crazy”: Gaslighting, Suspicion, and Insinuations in the Early Works of Amos Oz

Journal article Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies · 2025 Abstract: This article examines questions of literary gaslighting, and the ways in which the reader’s point of view is tailored and influenced by literary devices and by questions of suspicion and belief in relation to gendered liter ... Full text Cite

The Betrayal of Criticism

Other Dibur In recent decades, new Hebrew poetry has been characterized by poetic accessibility and clear statements. To understand this fundamental shift in the contemporary poetic idioms, it is not enough to cite the weakening of the institution of criticism itself, ... Link to item Cite