Suddenly, the Sight of War - Violence and Nationalism in Hebrew Poetry in the 1940s

Zusatztext " Suddenly! the Sight of War is an erudite research that proposes an original reading of Hebrew poetry at a time of deep cultural and political reshaping.... Suddenly! the Sight of War takes the reader on a poetic voyage that deeply helps understanding the impact that the Second World War and 1948 had on the formation of Israeli culture and confirms Hannan Hever as one of the most authoritative and original scholars of modern Hebrew literature." Informationen zum Autor Hannan Hever is the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature at Yale University. He is the author of several books, including Producing the Modern Hebrew Canon . Klappentext The book explores the drama of the Hebrew poetry coping with the violence of the Holocaust and the Israel-Arab war. Zusammenfassung The book explores the drama of the Hebrew poetry coping with the violence of the Holocaust and the Israel-Arab war. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Part I: Hebrew Symbolist Poetry During World War II 2. Part II: Historical Analogy and National Allegory During the Holocaust 3. Part III: Symbols of Death in the National War for Independence

Product details

• Authors: Hannan Hever
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.02.2016
• EAN: 9780804784108
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-8410-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture; Stanford Studies in Jewish His
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies