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The full severity of compassion : the poetry of Yehuda Amichai / Chana Kronfeld.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kronfeld, Chana, author.
- Series:
- Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
- Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Amichai, Yehuda--Criticism and interpretation.
- Amichai, Yehuda.
- Israeli poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- Israeli poetry.
- Jewish poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- Jewish poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (417 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'The Full Severity of Compassion' is both a modular retrospective of Yehuda Amichai's poetric project and a reassessment - by attending closely to the theory embedded in the poetry - of major issues in contemporary literary studies, from the politics of form to radical allusion, and from metaphor to translation.
- Contents:
- Introduction : "Be an other's, be an other" : a personal perspective
- Beyond appropriation : reclaiming the revolutionary Amichai
- "In the narrow between" : Amichai's poetic system
- "I want to mix up the Bible" : intertextuality, agency, and the poetics of radical allusion
- Celebrating mediation : the poet as translator
- Living on the hyphen : the necessary metaphor
- Double agency : Amichai and the problematics of generational literary historiography.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780804797214
- 0804797218
- OCLC:
- 934233872
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