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

Kronfeld, Chana,

The full severity of compassion : the poetry of Yehuda Amichai / Chana Kronfeld. - 1 online resource (417 pages) : illustrations. - Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture . - Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9780804797214


Amichai, Yehuda--Criticism and interpretation.


Israeli poetry--History and criticism.--20th century
Jewish poetry--History and criticism.--20th century


Electronic books.

PJ5054.A65 / Z696 2016

892.41/6