RAKEFET SELA-SHEFFY

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2023

 

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In Print and Forthcoming

Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet, Netta Avnoon & Revital Weil Gottshalk, forthcoming

“Bottom-up cultural dynamics of social innovation in childcare for infants in Israel: A distinction mechanism and educational activism”. In: Social innovation and welfare state retrenchment: a comparative analysis of early childhood education and care in Europe and beyond, Raquel Gallego, Sheila González, & Lara Maestripieri, eds. Leeds: Emerald Publishing.

 

2023

 

Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet 2023

Gerindo identidades marginalizadas entre conhecimento local e cultura global. O ambientalismo como recurso: exemplos da sociedade árabe em Israel”. Exilium – Revista de Estudos da Contemporaneidade, 6, pp. 45-68. [Stella, Marcello trans.]

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Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet 2023

What Does it Take to be a Professional Translator? Identity as a Resource.” In Professions and Proficiency, Glückler, Johannes, Christopher Winch & Anna Mateja Punstein, eds. [=Knowledge and Space, 18]. Cham: Springer, pp. 89-111.

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Leshem, Rotem & Rakefet Sela-Sheffy 2023

Affect, ethnic boundaries and social mobility: transforming identities in the acculturation of Ashkenazi immigrants in Israel.Emotions and Society 5 (2), pp. 165-184.

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2022

 

 

Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet 2022

“The translation profession.” In The Cambridge Handbook of Translation, Malmkjær, Kirsten, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 160-180.

 

Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet 2022

“Como ser um tradutor (reconhecido): repensando o habitus, as normas e o campo da tradução.” Cadernos de Tradução 42 (1), pp. 1-38. [Serpa, Talita, trans.]

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2021

 

 

Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet 2021

The Appeal of Environmentalism and Managing Marginalized Identities Between Culture Conservation and Change. Examples from Arab society in Israel.” In Circuits in Motion: Polysystem Theory and the Analysis of Culture, Souto, David , Aiora Sampedro & Jon Kortazar, eds. Bilbao: Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Argitalpen Zerbitzua / Servicio Editorial, pp. 42-58.

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Avnoon, Netta and Rakefet Sela-Sheffy 2021.

Counter-professionalization as an occupational status strategy: The production of professionalism in Israeli child-care workers’ identity work.” Journal of Professions and Organization. joab014, https://doi.org/10.1093/jpo/joab014

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2020

 

 

Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet 2020

“Olive Culture as European Heritage.” In Encyclopédie du patrimoine culturel européen (online). Turgeon, Laurier, ed. Saint-Etienne & Quebec City: ProPeace Project, pp. 1-9.

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Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet 2020

“Naturalists and settlers: The rise of a proto-environmental ethos in British-Ruled Palestine and early Israeli statehood”. Zmanim 142 (=special issue, Environmental History, eds. David Schorr and Miriam Shefer-Mossensohn), pp. 104-119.

סלע-שפי, רקפת 2020. “חוקרי טבע ומתיישבים: הצמיחה של אתוס פרוטו-סביבתי בתקופת המנדט וראשית המדינה", זמנים 142 (=חוברת מיוחדת בהיסטוריה סביבתית, בעריכת דוד שור ומירי שפר-מוסנזון), עמ' 104--119.

 

Zaradez, Noam, Rakefet Sela-Sheffy & Tali Tal 2020

The identity work of environmental education teachers in Israel. Environmental Education Research, Environmental Education Research, 26 (6), pp. 812-829.

 

2019

 

Lernau, Hila, Iris Alkahe & Rakefet Sela-Sheffy 2019

“'If the world has no future, why should I be a student?'“ Youth participation in climate protests in Israel and a call to foster climate change education.” Ecology and Environment 10 (4), pp. 100-103. [Hebrew]

לרנאו, הילה, איריס אלקחר ורקפת סלע-שפי 2019. “'אם אין לעולם עתיד, למה לי להיות תלמיד?'“ מחאות האקלים של בני הנוער בישראל וקריאה לטיפוח האוריינות האקלימית במערכת החינוך. אקולוגיה וסביבה 10 (4) [גליון מיוחד בנושא משבר האקלים], 100-103.

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2017

 

 

Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet 2017

"Cultural interference and value making: Innovativeness and conservatism in culture.” In Festschrift in honor of Saliha Paker: Essays presented by her colleagues, students and friends (Part I) [=Journal Of Turkish Studies / Türklük Bilgisi Araştirmaları, Vol. 48: December 2017] Tahir Gürçağlar, Şehnaz & Zehra Toska, eds., Cambridge, Mass.: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, pp. 349-360.

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Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet 2017

"A transformación dun campo literario e a creación dun canon: o caso da literatura alemana de finais do século XVIII.” In Estudos Literarios e Campo Cultural Galego, López, Teresa, Laurence Malingret & Elias J. Torres Feijó, eds. [=Cadernos CIPPCE sobre emerxencia cultural, 5]. Santiago de Compostela: Servizo de Publicacións e Intercambio Científico, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, pp. 287-309. [Nogueira, Álex Alonso trans.]

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Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet 2017

Two-way cultural transfer: the case of the Israeli TV series BeTipul and its American adaptation In Treatment Media Culture and Society.39 (6), pp. 781-797.

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Zaradez, Noam & Rakefet Sela-Sheffy. 2017

“The implementation of environmental education in schools and the question of the application of the environmental justice ideology -- the viewpoint of educational staff.” Israeli Sociology [special issue Environment & Society] 18(2), 173-195. [Hebrew]

נועם זרדז ורקפת סלע-שפי, 2017. “הטמעת החינוך הסביבתי בבתי הספר ושאלת יישומה של אידיאולוגית הצדק סביבתי - נקודת המבט של עובדי ההוראה", סוציולוגיה ישראלית [חוברת מיוחדת על סביבה וחברה], יח (2), 173-195.

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2016

 

 

Leshem, Rotem & Rakefet Sela-Sheffy 2016.

“Emotion-identity management through talk: Anger talk in young Israeli men’s accounts on a negative experience.” In Identity in communicative contexts, Ciepiela, Kamila, ed. Frankfurt am Main & Bern: Peter Lang, pp. 81-98.

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Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet & Rotem Leshem 2016.

“Emotion-identity talk in aggressive interactions and in reflexive accounts.” Culture & Psychology 22 (3), pp. 448-466.

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Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet 2016.

"Professional Identity and Status.” In Researching Translation and Interpreting, Angelelli, Claudia V. & Brian James Baer, eds. Milton Park & New York: Routledge, pp. 131-145.

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Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet 2016.

"Elite and non-elite translator manpower: The non-professionalized culture in the translation field in Israel.” In The translation profession: Centers and peripheries [=The Journal of Specialised Translation, Vol. 25] Koskinen, Kaisa & Helle Vrřnning Dam, eds., pp. 54-73.

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2015

 

 

Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet & Noam Zaradez 2015.

"Why do we go green and why not? On the link between culture & identity and environmental action – the Israeli context.” Eqologya u Seviva [Ecology and environment: A journal of environmental science and policy] 6 (1), pp. 33-39. [Hebrew]

סלע-שפי, רקפת ונועם זרדז 2015. “למה אנחנו סביבתיים ולמה לא? על הזיקה בין תרבות וזהות לבין פעולה סביבתית -- ההקשר הישראלי". אקולוגיה וסביבה 6 (1), עמ' 33--39.

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2014

 

 

Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet 2014.

"Translators identity work: Introducing micro-sociological theory of identity to the discussion of translators habitus.” In Remapping Habitus in Translation Studies, Vorderobermeier, Gisella M., ed [=Approaches to Translation Studies, 40]. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, pp. 43-55.

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Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet 2014.

“Fashion as a field of cultural production, and the power of the Bourgeoisie in Israeli culture-building: Review of Fashioning a Young State: Dress Culture in Israel of the 1950s, by Anat Helman", Israel 22 (2014), pp. 201-207 [review-article; Hebrew]

סלע־שפי, רקפת 2014. “האפנה כשדה ייצור תרבותי וכוחה של הבורגנות בבניית התרבות הישראלית". (מאמר ביקורת על ספרה של ענת הלמן בגדי הארץ החדשה: מדינת ישראל הצעירה בראי הלבוש והאופנה). ישראל 22, עמ' 201207.

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Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet 2014.

"Cómo ser un traductor (reconocido): un replanteamiento del habitus, las normas y el campo de la traducción.” In Bourdieu después de Bourdieu, Sanz Roig, Diana, ed [=Bibliotheca Philologica. Serie Lecturas]. Madrid: Arco/Libros, pp. 167-201. [Usandizaga, Guillem trans.]

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2013

 

 

Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet 2013.

"'Europeans in the Levant' Revisited: German Jewish Immigrants in 1930s Palestine and the Question of Culture Retention.” In Deutsche(s) in Palästina und Israel: Alltag, Kultur, Politik, Brunner, José, ed [=Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte / Tel Aviv Yearbook for German History, 41]. Goettingen: Wallstein Verlag, pp. 40-59.

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Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet 2013.

"The Remodeling of the Literary Profession and Its Role in the Making of Modern German Culture in Late 18th Century.” In Textual Production and Status Contests in Rising and Unstable Societies, Bampi, Massimiliano & Marina Buzzoni, eds. [=Filologie medievali e moderne]. Venice: Edizioni Ca' Foscari - Digital Publishing, pp. 95-113.

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2011

 

 

Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet 2011.

"Introduction: Identity and Status in the Translational Professions.” In Identity and Status in the Translational Professions, Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet & Miriam Shlesinger, eds. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 1-10.

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Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet 2011.

"Settlers, Environmentalism and Identity: Western Galilee 1949-1965.” In Cultural Heritage and Identity Politics, Roel, During, ed. Wageningen: Wageningen UR/ The Silk Road Research Foundation, pp. 49-60.

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Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet 2011.

"Introduction: Culture Contacts and the Making of Cultures.” in Culture Contacts and the Making of Cultures: Papers in Homage to Itamar Even-Zohar, Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet and Gideon Toury, eds. Tel-Aviv: Unit of Culture Research, Tel Aviv University, pp. 1-16.

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Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet 2011.

"High-Status Immigration Group and Culture Retention: German Jewish Immigrants in British-Ruled Palestine.” In Culture Contacts and the Making of Cultures: Papers in Homage to Itamar Even-Zohar, Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet and Gideon Toury, eds. Tel-Aviv: Unit of Culture Research, Tel Aviv University, pp. 79-100.

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2010

Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet 2010.

“'Stars' or 'Professionals': The Imagined Vocation and Exclusive Knowledge of Translators in Israel.” MonTI 2: Applied Sociology in Translation Studies/ Sociologia aplicada a la traducció. Oscar Diaz Fouces & Esther Monzó, eds. Alicante: Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alicante, pp. 131-152.

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2009

Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet 2009.

Between solidarity and alienation: Strategies of copying with a negative collective identity in everyday stories of Israeliness’.” Israel Studies in Language and Society 2 (2), pp. 15-34 (Hebrew); English abstract: p. 230.

סלע-שפי, רקפת 2009. “בין סולידריות להתנכרות: אסטרטגיות שיח של התמודדות עם דימוי קיבוצי שלילי בסיפורי יום-יום על 'הישראליות'". עיונים בשפה וחברה 2 (2), עמ' 15--34. תקציר באנגלית: עמ' 230.

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Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet 2009.

“Struggles over the Canon: Culture Preservation and Culture Transformation.” In Canon and Holy Scriptures, ed. Yaacov Shavit. Tel-Aviv University: The Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies [=Te'uda research series xxiii], pp. 17-46; English abstract: XIX-XX. (Hebrew)

סלע-שפי, רקפת 2009. “המאבקים על הקאנון: הדינאמיקה של שימור ושל חידוש בתרבות". בתוך קנון וכתבי קודש, יעקב שביט עורך .תל-אביב: אוניברסיטת תל אביב ,ביה"ס למדעי היהדות .[= סדרת “תעודה", כ"ג ], עמ' י"ז-מ"ו; תקציר באנגלית: עמ' XIX-XX.

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Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet & Miriam Shlesinger 2009.

“Introduction: Profession, Identity and Status.” In: Profession, Identity and Status: Translators and Interpreters as an Occupational Group (= Double special issues of Translation and Interpreting Studies), Rakefet Sela-Sheffy & Miriam Shlesinger (eds), TIS, 4(2), pp. 123-134.

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2008

 

 

Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet & Miriam Shlesinger 2008.

"Strategies of Image-Making and Status Advancement of Translators and Interpreters as a Marginal Occupational Group.” In: Beyond Descriptive Translation Studies: Investigations in homage to Gideon Toury. A. Pym, M. Shlesinger & D. Simeoni eds. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 79–90.

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Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet 2008.

“The Translators’ Personae: Marketing Translatorial Images as Pursuit of Capital.”Meta LIII, 3, pp. 609-622.

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2006

Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet 2006.

“Integration through Distinction: German-Jewish Immigrants, the Legal Profession and Patterns of Bourgeois Culture in British-Ruled Jewish Palestine.” Journal of Historical Sociology, Vol. 19 No. 1, 34-59.

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Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet 2006.

“Detachment and Engagement: Israelis Everyday Verbal Representations of the Israeli Person and the Contest for the Right to Condemn a Collective Identity.” Social Identities, Vol. 12 No. 3. (May 2006), 325-344.

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Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet 2006

“The Pursuit of Symbolic Capital by a Semi-Professional Group: The Case of Literary Translators in Israel.” In Übersetzen - Translating - Traduire: Towards a “Social Turn"? Michaela Wolf ed. Münster-Hamburg-Berlin-Wien-London: LIT., 243-252.

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2005

Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet 2005.

“Israelis Tell How (Other) Israelis Behave Abroad: Negotiating Group-Identity in Everyday Stories.” AS/SA 16 (2005.12), 54-65.

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Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet 2005

“How to Be a (Recognized) Translator: Rethinking Habitus, Norms, and the Field of Translation.” Target 17:1, 1-26.

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2004

Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet 2004.

“’What Makes One an Israeli?’ Negotiating Identities in Everyday Representations of ‘Israeliness’.” Nations and Nationalism 10:4, October 2004, 479-496.

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2003

Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet 2003.

“The Jekes in the Legal Field and Bourgeois Culture in Pre-Israel British Palestine.” Iyunim bi Tequmat Yisrael, Vol. 13, 295-322. [Hebrew]

סלע-שפי, רקפת 2003. “ה'יֶקים' בשדה המשפט ודפוסים של תרבות בורגנית בתקופת המנדט". עיונים בתקומת ישראל, כרך 13, עמ' 295--322.

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2002

Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet 2002.

“Canon Formation Revisited: Canon and Cultural Production.” Neohelicon XXIX (2002) 2, 141-159.

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2001

Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet 2001.

“The Suspended Potential of Culture Research in TS.” Target 12:2, 345-355.

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1999

 

 

Sheffy, Rakefet 1999.

“Estrategias de canonización y el campo intelectual en la cultura alemana del siglo dieciocho.” In Teoría de los polisistemas, Ed. M. Iglesias; ed. of series: José Antonio Mayoral. Madrid: ARCO Libros, 125-146.

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1998

Sheffy, Rakefet 1998.

“How Textual Models Relate to Reality? The Formation and Status of Nature and Landscape Description in Late Eighteenth-Century German Prose-Fiction.” Mimesis. Studies on Literary Representation, ed. Bernhard F. Scholz, Basel & Tuebingen: Francke Verlag, 245-257.

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Sheffy, Rakefet 1998.

“On 'Literature for the Masses' in the Eighteenth Century.” Dapim Lemehqar Hasifrut, 129-142. [Hebrew]

שפי, רקפת 1998. “על בעיית 'הספרות להמונים' בסוף המאה ה-18". דפים למחקר הספרות, כרך 11 (תשנ"ח), עמ' 129--142.

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1997

Sheffy, Rakefet 1997.

“Models and Habituses as Hypotheses in Culture Analysis.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée XXIV/1, 35-47.

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1996

Sheffy, Rakefet 1996.

“The Image of 'The Popular' as Manipulation of Elite Culture: The Late Eighteenth Century German 'Trivialroman' as a Literary Problem.” In The Popular Culture. Ed. B. Z. Kedar. (Jerusalem: The Zalman Shazar Center Publication), 225-244. [Hebrew]

שפי, רקפת 1996. “תדמית 'התוצר הפופולארי' כמניפולציה של תרבות עילית: 'הרומן הטריביאלי' הגרמני של סוף המאה ה-18 כבעיה ספרותית". בתוך התרבות העממית: קובץ מחקרים, ב"ז קדר עורך, ירושלים: מרכז זלמן שז"ר לתולדות ישראל, עמ' 225--243.

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Sheffy, Rakefet 1996.

“Models of Nature and Landscape Description: Their Sources and Functions in the Canonization of Late Eighteenth Century German Prose- Fiction.” Romanticism On the Net 3 (August 1996)

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Sheffy, Rakefet 1996.

“'Authentic German Culture': The Rise of New Intellectual Elite in the Eighteenth Century.” Zmanim 57, fall 1996/7, 47-58. [Hebrew]

שפי, רקפת 1997. “צמיחת עילית אינטלקטואלית חדשה בסוף המאה ה-18". זמנים 57, עמ' 47--55.

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1992

Sheffy, Rakefet 1992.

“The Eighteenth-Century German 'Trivialroman' as Constructed by Literary History and Criticism.” Texte [Toronto], 197-218.

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1991

Sheffy, Rakefet 1991.

“Rites of Coronation: Writing on Pierre Bourdieu.” Poetics Today 12/4, 801-811. (Review Article).

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Sheffy, Rakefet 1991.

“Canonization of a Non-Literary System: The Case of the Modern American Popular Song and Its Contact with Poetry.” In Orality and Literature. Eds. Hans R. Runte and Roseann Runte (New York, Bern: Peter Lang), 177- 186.

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1990

Sheffy, Rakefet 1990.

“The Concept of Canonicity in Polysystem Theory.Poetics Today 11/3, 511-522.

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1989

Sheffy, Rakefet 1989.

“Towards a Cognitive Anthropology.” Poetics Today 10/4, 847-850. (Review).

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Sheffy, Rakefet 1989.

“The Evolution of the Poetics of the Israeli Popular Song in the Beginning of the 70's.In: Ben-Porat, Z. (ed) Lyric Poetry and the Lyrics of Pop: the Israeli Popular Song as a Cultural System and as a Literary Genre. (Tel-Aviv: Porter Institute & Hakibutz Hameuchad), 76-98. [Hebrew]

שפי, רקפת 1989. “התפתחות הפואטיקה של הפזמונאות הישראלית בראשית שנות השבעים". בתוך זיוה בן-פורת 1989, ליריקה ולהיט. תל-אביב: הקיבוץ המאוחד, עמ' 76--98.

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Sheffy, Rakefet 1989.

“On the Canonization of the American Popular Song.” In: Ben-Porat, Z. (ed) Lyric Poetry and the Lyrics of Pop: The Israeli Popular Song as a Cultural System and as a Literary Genre. (Tel-Aviv: the Porter Institute & Hakibutz Hameuchad), 38-66. [Hebrew]

שפי, רקפת 1989. “על הקאנוניזאציה בפזמונאות האמריקאית: הפזמונאות כמושא למחקר לפי תפיסת הפונקציונאליזם הדינמי". בתוך זיוה בן-פורת 1989, ליריקה ולהיט. תל-אביב: הקיבוץ המאוחד, עמ' 38--65.

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