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Suddenly, the sight of war : violence and nationalism in Hebrew poetry in the 1940s / Hannan Hever ; translated by Lisa Katz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hever, Hannan, author.
- Series:
- Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
- Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
- Standardized Title:
- Pitʼom marʼeh ha-milḥamah. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Israeli poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- Israeli poetry.
- Violence in literature.
- Nationalism in literature.
- Symbolism in literature.
- War in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (284 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Suddenly, the Sight of War is a genealogy of Hebrew poetry written in pre-state Israel between the beginning of World War II and the War of Independence in 1948. In it, renowned literary scholar Hannan Hever sheds light on how the views and poetic practices of poets changed as they became aware of the extreme violence in Europe toward the Jews. In dealing with the difficult topics of the Shoah, Natan Alterman's 1944 publication of The Poems of the Ten Plagues proved pivotal. His work inspired the next generation of poets like Haim Guri, as well as detractors like Amir Gilboa. Suddenly, the Sight of War also explores the relations between the poetry of the struggle for national independence and the genre of war-reportage, uniquely prevalent at the time. Hever concludes his genealogy with a focus on the feminine reaction to the War of Independence showing how women writers such as Lea Goldberg and Yocheved Bat-Miryam subverted war poetry at the end of the 1940s. Through the work of these remarkable poets, we learn how a culture transcended seemingly unspeakable violence.
- Contents:
- Hebrew symbolist poetry during World War II
- Historical analogy and national allegory during the Holocaust
- Symbols of death in the national war for independence.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in Hebrew in 2000 under the title Pitʼom marʼeh ha-milḥamah."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780804797184
- 0804797188
- OCLC:
- 1198930689
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