1st Edition

The Experienced Soul Studies In Amichai

By Glenda Abramson Copyright 1997
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Yehuda Amichai is Israel's foremost poet as well as a significant novelist and dramatist. He has received every major Israeli prize for literature, and his poetry has been translated into over twenty languages. Amichai has served as poet-in-residence at major universities across the United States and has been a Sequent visitor to the University of Oxford. In this volume, the world's leading... Read more
Introduction -- A Tribute to Yehuda Amichai: How Amichai is Regarded by Egyptian Intellectuals -- Poetry -- Towards a Comprehensive Study of Amichai’s Poetry -- The Conceit as a Cardinal Style–Maker in Yehuda Amichai’s Poetry -- On the Political Significance of Amichai’s Poetry -- Yehuda Halevi and Solomon Ibn Gabirol in the Early Poetry of Yehuda Amichai: Two Different Poems—Two Different Styles -- Portrait of the Poet in a Landscape -- The Metaphor of the Persona -- The “Feminine” in Yehuda Amichai’s Poetics -- Amichai and the Likrat Group: The Early Amichai and His Literary Reference Group -- Drama -- God, Jonah, and the Drama: The Actualization of a Myth -- Fiction -- Home and Abroad: The Case of Amichai’s Not of This Time, Not of This Place -- A Home Within: Place and Time in Amichai’s Fiction -- Poetic and Dramatic Elements in the Children’s Literature of Yehuda Amichai

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