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Figuring Jerusalem : Politics and Poetics in the Sacred Center /
Figuring Jerusalem explores how Hebrew writers have imagined Jerusalem, both from the distance of exile and from within its sacred walls. For two thousand years, Hebrew writers used their exile from the Holy Land as a license for invention. The question at the heart of Figuring Jerusalem is this: ho...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2022]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Note on Hebrew Transliteration
- Prologue "Why Jerusalem?" The Politics of Poetry
- 1 Introduction "This House, which is called by My Name"
- Part I Literary Archaeologies
- 1 "Yes, you did laugh!": The Secret of the Akeda
- 2 "You are as majestic as Jerusalem": The Song and the City
- 3 "Apples of gold in ornaments of silver": Maimonides's Guide to the Poetic Imagination
- Part II Agnon's Dilemma
- 4 "What may this be likened to?": Agnon and the Poetics of Space
- 5 "Every day I have regretted not having stood in the breach": Agnon in Jerusalem
- Part III Amichai in the Breach
- 6 "He comes out of a swimming pool or the sea . . . and he laughs and blesses": Yehuda Amichai, Poet of the Sacred Quotidian
- 7 "Visit my tears and the east wind, which is the true Western Wall": Amichai in Jerusalem
- Coda
- Acknowledgments: Ancient Debts and Ongoing Gratitude
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of Names
- Index of Biblical Citations