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Delmore Schwartz : a critical reassessment
\"Delmore Schwartz: A Critical Reassessment comprehensively reassesses Delmore Schwartz's poetry in relation to its national and transatlantic engagements, addressing such concerns as Schwartz's Jewish-American heritage, his use of allusion, and his sense of the lyric poet's social and political responsibility\"-- Provided by publisher.
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An Inch or Two of Time
In literary modernism, time and space are sometimes transformed from organizational categories into aesthetic objects, a transformation that can open dramatic metaphorical and creative possibilities. In An Inch or Two of Time, Jordan Finkin shows how Jewish modernists of the early twentieth century had a distinct perspective on this innovative metaphorical vocabulary. As members of a national-ethnic-religious community long denied the rights and privileges of self-determination, with a dramatically internalized sense of exile and landlessness, the Jewish writers at the core of this investigation reimagined their spatial and temporal orientation and embeddedness. They set as the fulcrum of their imagery the metaphorical power of time and space. Where non-Jewish writers might tend to view space as a given—an element of their own sense of belonging to a nation at home in a given territory—the Jewish writers discussed here spatialized time: they created an as-if space out of time, out of history. They understood their writing to function as a kind of organ of perception on its own. Jewish literature thus presents a particularly dynamic system for working out the implications of that understanding, and as such, this book argues, it is an indispensable part of the modern library.
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Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England
Victorian women poets lived in a time when religion was a vital aspect of their identities. Cynthia Scheinberg examines Anglo-Jewish (Grace Aguilar and Amy Levy) and Christian (Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti) women poets, and argues that there are important connections between the discourses of nineteenth-century poetry, gender and religious identity. Further, Scheinberg argues that Jewish and Christian women poets had a special interest in Jewish discourse; calling on images from Judaism and the Hebrew Scriptures, their poetry created complex arguments about the relationships between Jewish and female artistic identity. She suggests that Jewish and Christian women used poetry as a site for creative and original theological interpretation, and that they entered into dialogue through their poetry about their own and each other's religious and artistic identities. This book's interdisciplinary methodology calls on poetics, religious studies, feminist literary criticism, and little read Anglo-Jewish primary sources.
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The Full Severity of Compassion
Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) was the foremost Israeli poet of the twentieth century and an internationally influential literary figure whose poetry has been translated into some 40 languages. Hitherto, no comprehensive literary study of Amichai's poetry has appeared in English. This long-awaited book seeks to fill the gap.
Widely considered one of the greatest poets of our time and the most important Jewish poet since Paul Celan, Amichai is beloved by readers the world over. Beneath the carefully crafted and accessible surface of Amichai's poetry lies a profound, complex, and often revolutionary poetic vision that deliberately disrupts traditional literary boundaries and distinctions. Chana Kronfeld focuses on the stylistic implications of Amichai's poetic philosophy and on what she describes as his \"acerbic critique of ideology.\" She rescues Amichai's poetry from complacent appropriations, showing in the process how his work obliges us to rethink major issues in literary studies, including metaphor, intertextuality, translation, and the politics of poetic form. In spotlighting his deeply egalitarian outlook, this book makes the experimental, iconoclastic Amichai newly compelling.
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Young Jewish Poets Who Fell as Soviet Soldiers in the Second World War
This book deals with the work of fifteen young Jewish poets who were killed, died of wounds, or were executed in captivity while serving in the Red Army in the Second World War. All were young, all were poets, most were thoroughly assimilated into Soviet society whilst at the same time being rooted in Jewish culture and traditions. Their poetry, written mostly in Russian, Yiddish, and Ukrainian, was coloured by their backgrounds, by the literary and cultural climate that prevailed in the Soviet Union, and was deeply concerned with their expectation of impending death at the hands of the Nazis.
The book examines the poets' backgrounds, their lives, their poetry and their deaths. Like the experiences and poetry of the British First World War poets, the lives and poems of these young Jewish poets are extremely interesting and deeply moving.
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Commemorating the Nameless Wives of the Bible: Midrashic Poems by Contemporary American-Jewish Women
A proper name individualizes a person, the lack of it making him or her less noticeable. This insight is apt in regard to the nameless women in the Hebrew Bible, a resolutely androcentric work. As Judaism traditionally barred women from studying, many Jewish feminists have sought access to the Jewish canon. Much of American-Jewish women’s poetry can thus be viewed as belonging to the midrashic-poetry tradition, attempting to vivify the biblical women by “revisioning” the Bible. This article examines two nameless wives who, although barely noted in the biblical text, play a significant role in their husbands’ stories—Mrs. Noah and Mrs. Job. Although numerous exegetes have noted them across history, few have delved into their emotions and characters. Exploration of the way in which contemporary Jewish-American poets treat these women and connect them to their own world(s) is thus of great interest to both modern and biblical scholars. Herein I focus on five poets: Elaine Rose Glickman (“Parashat Noach”), Barbara D. Holender (“Noah’s Wife,” and “Job’s Wife”), Oriana Ivy (“Mrs. Noah,” and “Job’s Wife”), Shirley Kaufman (“Job’s Wife”), and Sherri Waas Shunfenthal (“Noah’s Wife Speaks,” “The Animals are our Friends,” “Time,” and “Arc of Peace”).
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Tiger Heron
Appearance and disguise-in a Costa Rican rainforest, a West Village repair shop, or an intimate relationship-reveal the turbulence that undergirds daily life, as families and places undergo change. In \"Elegy for the Norther Flying Squirrel\" and \"Divers,\" Becker takes up the science of climate change and habitat loss. \"Language that is by turns virtuosic and quiet, astonishing and accurate,\" writes a reviewer of Becker's 2006 collection,Domain of Perfect AffectionforJewish Book World Magazine.The challenge of \"aligning loss with love\" exerts a potent tension in Tiger Heron, as age comprises mortal bodies and intimacies end. A self-mocking wit propels characters \"to find and lose and find each other again\"-in the imagination and in the stories these poems tell. The final line of \"The Sounds of Yiddish\"-\"Spare us what we can learn to endure\"-closes a playful send-up, dramatizing language, culture, and power. Writing inThe Washington Post,former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky praises Becker's \"comic timing.\" Longtime readers of Becker's work will delight in poems cast in a variety of stanzas and experimental forms. Their occasions are diverse-an animal shelter, a failed trip to Venice, a hospice bedside-but Becker ultimately yokes a language of praise to our stumbling, humble, human efforts.
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Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture
\"What have I in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in
common with myself!\" --Franz Kafka Kafka's
quip--paradoxical, self-questioning, ironic--highlights vividly
some of the key issues of identity and self-representation for
Jewish writers in the 20th century. No group of writers better
represents the problems of Jewish identity than Jewish poets
writing in the American modernist tradition--specifically secular
Jews: those disdainful or suspicious of organized religion, yet
forever shaped by those traditions. This collection of essays is
the first to address this often obscured dimension of modern and
contemporary poetry: the secular Jewish dimension. Editors Daniel
Morris and Stephen Paul Miller asked their contributors to
address what constitutes radical poetry written by Jews defined
as \"secular,\" and whether or not there is a Jewish component or
dimension to radical and modernist poetic practice in general.
These poets and critics address these questions by exploring the
legacy of those poets who preceded and influenced them--Stein,
Zukofsky, Reznikoff, Oppen, and Ginsberg, among others. While
there is no easy answer for these writers about what it means to
be a Jew, in their responses there is a rich sense of how being
Jewish reflects on their aesthetics and practices as poets, and
how the tradition of the avant-garde informs their identities as
Jews. Fragmented identities, irony, skepticism, a sense of self
as \"other\" or \"outsider,\" distrust of the literal, and belief in
a tradition that questions rather than answers--these are some of
the qualities these poets see as common to themselves, the poetry
they make, and the tradition they work within.
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Like Joseph in Beauty
This book traces the evolution of an Arabic poetic form called \"Humayni poetry.\" The book addresses the connections between the Humayni poetry of Yemen and the sacred poetry of Jews from Yemen, a hitherto-neglected chapter in the history of Arabic and Jewish literatures.
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The Sentences of Pseudo-Phocylides
The series Commentaries on Early Jewish Literature (CEJL) is devoted to the study of Jewish documents and traditions that can be dated or traced back to the Hellenistic and Roman periods (ca. 300 BCE-150 CE). The literature covered by the series represents a rich diversity of literary forms and religious perspectives. Formally, these writings include testaments, apocalypses, legends, expansions and interpretations of biblical writings, psalms and prayers, poetry, historiography, and wisdom literature. They witness to an immensely creative period during which many Jews were struggling to preserve a living faith in the wake of social, political, and religious upheavals in the Mediterranean world and the Near East.
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