Like a dark rabbi : modern poetry & the Jewish literary imagination /

"Wallace Stevens' "dark rabbi," from his poem "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle," provides a title for this collection of essays on the "lordly study" of modern Jewish poetry in English. Including chapters on such poets as Charles Reznikoff, Allen Grossman, Chana Bloch...

وصف كامل

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Finkelstein, Norman, 1954- (مؤلف)
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Cincinnati : Hebrew Union College Press [2019]
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvd7w7h5
جدول المحتويات:
  • Preface
  • Introduction: two Shapiros: thoughts on poetry and secular Jewish culture
  • Ghosts of Yiddish; or, postvernacularity in Jewish American poetry
  • Charles Reznikoff: modernism, diaspora, and the problem of Jewish identity
  • Allen Grossman and the poetry of holiness
  • Michael Heller: between the sacred and the profane
  • Chana Bloch: surfaces and depths
  • "The darker wisdom of the Jews": Henry Weinfield's dialectical irony
  • Rachel Tzvia back: between Israel and the diaspora
  • Dark rabbis and secret Jews
  • Afterword: "diasporas of imperfection."