Poetics of Prophecy - Modern Afterlives of a Biblical Tradition

"Yosefa Raz reveals surprising entanglements between scholarly and poetic traditions in the project of reinventing prophecy"--

List of contents

Introduction: Prophetic Strength and Weakness; 1. Seraphic Choirs and Stuttering Prophets: Symmetry, Disorder, and the Invention of the Literary Bible; 2. Walking through William Blake's Irregular Bible; 3. The Myth of Primordial Orality and the Disfigured Face of Written Prophecy; 4. Ahad Ha'am's Mask of Moses and the Secularization of Prophetic Power; 5. Haim Nahman Bialik: The National Poet's Cup of Sorrows; Afterword: An Untuning.

About the author

Yosefa Raz is teaches in the department of English Literature at the University of Haifa, where she specializes the study of the Bible and its reception, poetry and poetics, and Romantic and contemporary poetry. She is also a poet and translator, with work recently published in The Brooklyn Rail, Boston Review, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.

Summary

Yosefa Raz reveals surprising entanglements between scholarly and poetic traditions in the project of reinventing prophecy. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Foreword

Yosefa Raz reveals surprising entanglements between scholarly and poetic traditions in the project of reinventing prophecy.

Product details

• Authors: Yosefa Raz, Yosefa (University of Haifa Raz
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2023
• EAN: 9781009366274
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0936627-4
• No. of pages: 246
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Poetry, Theology, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Hebrew, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Classic and pre-20th century poetry