The Politics of Canonicity: Lines of Resistance in Modernist Hebrew Poetry (Contraversions:  Jews and Other Differen)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: December 30, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780804729840
Subjects: Literary theory; Poetry & poets; Jewish; Hebrew Poetry; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Hebrew; Literary Criticism; Europe; Poetry; Literary Criticism / Poetry; European - General; 20th century; Hebrew literature, Modern; Hebrew poetry, Modern; History and criticism; Nationalism and literature
First sentence: Following Hannah Arendt, Homi Bhabha observes that "the society of the nation in the modern world is 'that curiously hybrid realm where private interests assume public significance' and the two realms flow unceasingly and uncertainly into each other, 'like waves in the never-ending stream of the life process itself.'"