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基本説明
This is a collection of essays written in English by distinguished Israeli literary and cultural critic Benjamin Harshav covering the whole span of Jewish culture. Included are condensed yet subtle interpretations of modern Hebrew poems and a comprehensive essay on American poetry in the Yiddish language.
Full Description
This book is a coat of many colors. It is a collection of essays written in English by the distinguished Israeli literary and cultural critic, Benjamin Harshav, covering the whole span of Jewish culture. The essays combine a wide historical scope with meticulously detailed close analyses of the art of poetry. They discuss general aspects of Jewish history, such as the demographic situation of the Jews in Eastern Europe and the phenomenon of exuberant multilingualism, Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon's Only Yesterday, the religious/secular nexus in modern Israel, and Herman Kruk's diaries of the last days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania. We find here condensed yet subtle interpretations of modern Hebrew poems and a comprehensive essay on American poetry in the Yiddish language. Of special importance is the study of the changing formal systems of Hebrew verse from the Bible to the present.
This book is a companion volume to Harshav's Explorations in Poetics, representing his contributions to Israeli literary theory.
Contents
CONTENTS Preface xxx Culture and History 1 1. Theses on the Historical Context of the Modern Jewish Revolution 00 2. Multilingualism 00 3. The Crisis of Jewish Identity: S.Y. Agnon's Only Yesterday 00 4. American Poetry in Yiddish and its Background 00 5. The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania 00 Art and Poetry 00 6. On the Beginnings of Israeli Poetry and Yehuda Amichai's Quatrains: A Memoir 00 7. The Modern Hebrew Poem Itself: Nathan Alterman, Abba Kovner 00 8. The Role of Language in Chagall's Early Paintings 00 9. A. Sutzkever: Life and Poetry 00 10. Note on the Systems of Hebrew Versification: Bible to Present 00 Sources of the Chapters 00