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Like a dark rabbi : modern poetry & the Jewish literary imagination /

"Wallace Stevens' "dark rabbi," from his poem "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle," provides a title for this collection of essays on the "lordly study" of modern Jewish poetry in English. Including chapters on such poets as Charles Reznikoff, Allen Grossman, Chana Bloch...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Finkelstein, Norman, 1954- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cincinnati : Hebrew Union College Press, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction: two Shapiros: thoughts on poetry and secular Jewish culture
  • Ghosts of Yiddish; or, postvernacularity in Jewish American poetry
  • Charles Reznikoff: modernism, diaspora, and the problem of Jewish identity
  • Allen Grossman and the poetry of holiness
  • Michael Heller: between the sacred and the profane
  • Chana Bloch: surfaces and depths
  • "The darker wisdom of the Jews": Henry Weinfield's dialectical irony
  • Rachel Tzvia back: between Israel and the diaspora
  • Dark rabbis and secret Jews
  • Afterword: "diasporas of imperfection."