The prophetic mode in modern Hebrew poetry
By: Dan Miron
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Toby Press; Koren Publishers Jerusalem
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Milford, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 633
ISBN-13: 9781592642830; 9781592642670
Subjects: Prophecy in literature; History and criticism; Modern Hebrew poetry; Modern Hebrew literature
Notes: Subtitle on cover: And other essays on modern Hebrew literature.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Chayim Nachman Bialik's poetry: an introduction without footnotes; title: The prophetic mode in modern Hebrew poetry; title: Introduction to the poetry of Uri Zvi Greenberg; title: The beginnings of Hebrew women's poetry; title: Jerusalem in modern Hebrew literature; title: Modern Hebrew literature: Zionist perspectives and Israeli realities; title: The shock of independence: reverberations in early Israeli poetry; title: Time and space in the works of S. Yizhar and Yehuda Amichai: two generational models in early Israeli literature; title: The epistemological quest and the (im)possibility of prophecy in the early poetry of Natan Zach.