The Full Severity of Compassion: The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai
Chana Kronfeld
Abstract
Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) was the foremost Israeli poet of the 20th century and an internationally influential literary figure. The Full Severity of Compassion is a modular retrospective of Amichai's poetic project. It depicts the poet's life-long struggle against all hierarchical systems of privilege and exclusion, and his search for an alternative “language of love,” as he calls it. The book explores Amichai's fierce avant-garde egalitarianism at it is expressed in a commitment to both accessibility and daring experimentation. Through a series of close readings, the book discusses issues in ... More
Keywords: Yehuda Amichai, Modernism, Metaphor, Intertextuality, Political Poetry, Modern Hebrew Literature, Liminality, Translation Studies, Israel/Palestine, Literary Historiography
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 | Print ISBN-13: 9780804782951 |
| Published to Stanford Scholarship Online: May 2016 | DOI:10.11126/stanford/9780804782951.001.0001 |
