Figuring Jerusalem: Politics and Poetics in the Sacred Center
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Note on Hebrew Transliteration -- Prologue "Why Jerusalem?" The Politics of Poetry -- Introduction "This House, which is called by My Name" -- Part I. Literary Archaeologies -- 1. "Yes, you did laugh!": The Secret of the Akeda --...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Chicago London
University of Chicago Press
2022
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| Dans: | Année: 2022 |
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Hébreu
/ Hébreu moderne
/ Jérusalem (Motif)
B Maimonides, Moses 1135-1204 / ʿAgnon, Shemuʾel Yosef 1888-1970 / ʿAmiḥai, Yehudah 1924-2000 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Hebrew literature -- History and criticism
B Electronic books |
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| Résumé: | Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Note on Hebrew Transliteration -- Prologue "Why Jerusalem?" The Politics of Poetry -- 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. |
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| ISBN: | 022678763X |