The Experienced Soul: Studies in Amichai

Table of contents

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• Title Page v
• Contents ix
• Acknowledgments xi
• Introduction xiii
• Notes xx
• 1: A Tribute to Yehuda Amichai: How Amichai is Regarded by Egyptian Intellectuals 1
• Part One Poetry 7
• 2: Towards a Comprehensive Study of Amichai's Poetry 9
• Notes 16
• 3: The Conceit as a Cardinal Style-Marker in Yehuda Amichai's Poetry 17
• 4: On the Political Significance of Amichai's Poetry 27
• 5: Yehuda Halevi and Solomon Ibn Gabirol in the Early Poetry of Yehuda Amichai: Two Different Poems--Two Different Styles 51
• 6: Portrait of the Poet in a Landscape 57
• 7: The Metaphor of the Persona 71
• 8: The "Feminine" in Yehuda Amichai's Poetics 77
• 9: Amichai and the Likrat Group: The Early Amichai and His Literary Reference Group 93

• Title Page v
• Contents ix
• Acknowledgments xi
• Introduction xiii
• Notes xx
• 1: A Tribute to Yehuda Amichai: How Amichai is Regarded by Egyptian Intellectuals 1
• Part One Poetry 7
• 2: Towards a Comprehensive Study of Amichai's Poetry 9
• Notes 16
• 3: The Conceit as a Cardinal Style-Marker in Yehuda Amichai's Poetry 17
• 4: On the Political Significance of Amichai's Poetry 27
• 5: Yehuda Halevi and Solomon Ibn Gabirol in the Early Poetry of Yehuda Amichai: Two Different Poems--Two Different Styles 51
• 6: Portrait of the Poet in a Landscape 57
• 7: The Metaphor of the Persona 71
• 8: The "Feminine" in Yehuda Amichai's Poetics 77
• 9: Amichai and the Likrat Group: The Early Amichai and His Literary Reference Group 93
• Part Two Drama 121
• 10: God, Jonah, and the Drama: The Actualization of a Myth 123
• Notes 129
• Part Three Fiction 131
• 11: Home and Abroad: The Case of Amichai's Not of This Time, Not of This Place 133
• Notes 140
• 12: A Home Within: Place and Time in Amichai's Fiction 141
• 13: Poetic and Dramatic Elements in the Children's Literature of Yehuda Amichai 149
• About the Book 159
• About the Editor and Contributors 161
• Index 165