The Experienced Soul: Studies in Amichai

ISBN-13: 9780367307479 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 192 str.

Glenda Abramson

Opis

This volume provides an overview of a major twentieth-century literary figure, Amichai and the world's leading authorities explore all the major genres and themes of his work. It will prove valuable to those teaching modern Hebrew literature at English-language universities.

Spis treści

Introduction -- A Tribute to Yehuda Amichai: How Amichai is Regarded by Egyptian Intellectuals -- Poetry -- Towards a Comprehensive Study of Amichai’s Poetry -- The Conceit as a Cardinal Style–Maker in Yehuda Amichai’s Poetry -- On the Political Significance of Amichai’s Poetry -- Yehuda Halevi and Solomon Ibn Gabirol in the Early Poetry of Yehuda Amichai: Two Different Poems—Two Different Styles -- Portrait of the Poet in a Landscape -- The Metaphor of the Persona -- The “Feminine” in Yehuda Amichai’s Poetics -- Amichai and the Likrat Group: The Early Amichai and His Literary Reference Group -- Drama -- God, Jonah, and the Drama: The Actualization of a Myth -- Fiction -- Home and Abroad: The Case of Amichai’s Not of This Time, Not of This Place -- A Home Within: Place and Time in Amichai’s Fiction -- Poetic and Dramatic Elements in the Children’s Literature of Yehuda Amichai

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