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SHLOMITH  RIMMON-KENAN,  RENEE LANG PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF HUMANISTIC STUDIES 
Status : EMERITUS Birth place : JERUSALEM
Office Phone: 02-588-3981 Fax:
E-Mail: rkenan@mscc.huji.ac.il
U.R.L:
 
Department Faculty  
GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE FACULTY OF HUMANITIES Dept. Description
ENGLISH FACULTY OF HUMANITIES Dept. Description
 
Academic Degree   Institution Year
Ph.D. UNIV. OF LONDON 1974
 
Academic Position   Year
EMERITUS 2004
PROFESSOR 1990
ASSOC. PROFESSOR 1981
SENIOR LECTURER 1978
LECTURER 1975
 
Administrative Position   From To
Director, School of Literature, Faculty of Humanities. 2002 2004
 
External Academic Positions
Visiting Prof.: Harvard Univ., 1990; Univ. of Helsinki, 1993
Memberships and Fellowships:
Soc. for the Study of Narrative Lit.; Int'l Assn. of Compar-
ative Lit.; Int'l Assn. of Univ. Professors of English
 
Research Interests
Narrative theory. The modern novel. Literature and psychoanalysis;
literature and medicine.
 
Research Projects
The concept of narrative:
Illness narratives.
 
Selected Publications
Publication Title   Year
Wit and the art of analogy. 2007
What can narrative theory learn from illness narratives? 2007
Concepts of narrative. 2006
In two voices, or whose life/death/story is it, anyway? In: 2005
Wolfgang Iser's The Range of Interpretation. 2003
Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics, 2nd edition, 2002
Towards: Afterthoughts, almost twenty years later. (New chapter). 2002
Continuity and fragmentation in illness narratives. 2002
The story of "I": Illness an narrative identity. 2002
A "figure" in Iser's "Carpet." 2000
Is there a life after death? Theorizing authors and reading 1999
Re-Reading Texts/Rethinking Critical Presuppositions. 1997
A Glance Beyond Doubt: Narration, Representation, 1996
Narration, doubt, retrieval: Toni Morrison's Beloved. 1996
Narration, representation, subjectivity ("Kerronta, 1995
What is theme and how do we get at it? 1995
Interpretive strategies, interior monologues. In: 1992
Under the sign of loss: A reading of Faulkner's The Sound 1989
How the model neglects the medium: Linguistics, language and the 1989
Narration as repetition: The case of G?nter Grass's Cat and 1987
Discourse in Psychoanalysis and Literature. London/New 1987
 
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