Reading modern Hebrew poetry and prose
By: Lev Hakak
Publisher: Hadassa Word Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Saarbrücken, Deutschland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9783639795233
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Israeli literature; Israeli poetry; Israeli fiction; Film adaptations
Work titles: Essays
Notes: "Most of the articles were published in various academic periodicals"--Back cover.
Table of contents: title: Prose. Sexual symbols in "Another face" by S,Y, Agnon ; The motif of the cock in A simple story by S.Y. Agnon ; The apologetic narrator and the sophisticated author in "Another Tallit" by S.Y. Agnon ; Society's judgment and God's judgment: S.Y. Agnon's "In the forest and in the city" and Dicken's Great expectation; title: Israeli society as depicted in the novels of A.B. Yehoshua; title: Poetry. The Holocaust in the poetry of Sephardim and Near Eastern Jews ; Estranged nightingales: on poetry written by Near Eastern Jews in Israel ; David Vogel and Nathan Alterman: a comparative study ; "A poem to the wise lovers" by Nathan Zach: an interpretive resolution of a poem, which has possible incompatible interpretations ; Expanding our modern Hebrew literature curriculum: the case of modern Hebrew creativity in Babylon ; Teaching modern Hebrew literature made into films in English translation; title: Sephardi studies. A trip to the future through the past: Elleh Masaeh Rabbi Yehuda Halevi by Jehuda Burla ; The foktales of Rabbi Yosef Hayyim; title: Book reviews. Yemenite Jewry: origins, culture and literature by Reuben Ahroni ; From Agnon to Oz: studies in modern Hebrew literature by Warren Bargad ; Kinds of genre in Haskalah literature: type and topics by Moshe Pelli ; New perspectives on the Haskalah, edited by Shmuel Feiner and David Sorkin ; The life and work of L,A. Arieli (Orloff) by Gila Ramras-Rouch ; A book that was lost and other stories by S.Y. Agnon edited by Alan Mintz and Anne Golomb Hoffman.