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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815355603321

Autore

Kronfeld Chana

Titolo

The full severity of compassion : the poetry of Yehuda Amichai / / Chana Kronfeld

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-8047-9721-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (417 p.)

Collana

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

Disciplina

892.41/6

Soggetti

Israeli poetry - 20th century - History and criticism

Jewish poetry - 20th century - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

'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.