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Suddenly, the sight of war : violence and nationalism in Hebrew poetry in the 1940s /
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 t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Hebrew |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Hebrew Symbolist Poetry During World War II ; 1. "The Real Has Become a Symbol" ; 2. The Dispute over War Poetry ; 3. Criticism of Nationalist Violence ; 4. Reading Nationalist Poetry Critically ; 5. Nationalism Anthologized ; 6. The Living-Dead in Joy of the Poor ; 7. Revenge on a Nationalist Scale ; 8. Leah Goldberg Writes War Poetry ; 9. The Duality of the Symbolist Woman Poet ; 10. The Living-Dead and the Female Body; 11. Amir Gilboa: Boy Poet ; Part II: Historical Analogy and National Allegory During the Holocaust.
- 12. A Surprising Moral Judgment 13. The Uncommon Stance of a Major Poet; 14. Critical Reception ; 15. A Postnationalist Reading; 16. A Symbol, Not an Allegory; 17. Allegory in The Poems of the Plagues of Egypt Versus Symbolism in Joy of the Poor; 18. Allegory as a Nonhegemonic Stance; 19. Alterman and the Memory of the Holocaust; 20. The Father-Son Strategy ; 21. Blind Vengeance; 22. Breaking the Cycle of Crime and Punishment; 23. History of the Defeated; 24. A Summer Quarrel; 25. Ghetto Poems in the Streets of Tel-Aviv; Part III: Symbols of Death in the National War for Independence.
- 26. Return of the Hegemonic Symbol 27. The Living-Dead in the Independence War; 28. Amir Gilboa and the Subversion of the Symbol; 29. Gilboa Versus the Metaphor of the Living-Dead; 30. Poets as Reporters; 31. Sorrow Petrified into Symbols; 32. Hegemonic Strategies; 33. From Reportage to Lyric; 34. Women Write of Fallen Soldiers as Flesh and Blood; 35. In the Service of National Subjectivity; 36. Women and the Metaphor of the Living-Dead; 37. Criticism of the Living-Dead Metaphor; 38. The Authority and Power of Women ; 39. Popular Versus Canonical Mourning; 40. The Secrets and Power of Women.