Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
"His Pen and Ink Are a Powerful Mirror'"
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2020) 140-162
Keywords:
Amichai, Yehuda, Criticism and interpretation
;
Samuel, Criticism and interpretation
;
Hebrew poetry, Medieval History and criticism
;
Hebrew poetry, Modern History and criticism
;
War in literature
;
Nationalism in literature
Abstract:
This paper offers a reading of an unpublished essay by Yehuda Amichai written when he was a student of medieval Hebrew poetry at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in a seminar taught by Ḥayim Schirmann. His essay takes a comparative approach to the war poetry of Samuel ibn Naghrīla, making both sweeping claims about war poetry across time and space narrower ones about the specific qualities of poetry written in war contexts in Spain in all of its languages. Although Amichai hews closely to Schirmann’s interpretive line he goes farther than his professor does, arguing that not only does Ibn Naghrīla consolidate his roles in both the Jewish and Muslim communities in Granada through his poetry, he does so in a way that sublimates religion to other concerns; in doing so, Amichai begins to pave the way for the kind of poetic nationalism that would emerge in his own later work.
DOI:
10.1163/9789004407541_009
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