David Aberbach (Canada McGill University)

Bialik, the Hebrew Bible and the Literature of Nationalism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the life and poetry of Chaim Nachman Bialik (1873-1934) in the context of European national literature between the French Revolution and World War I, showing how he helped create a modern Hebrew national culture, spurring the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Jewish Studies Series
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 159mm x 255mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 616g
• ISBN-13: 9781032412474
• ISBN-10: 103241247X
• Artikelnr.: 67260891

Autorenporträt

David Aberbach is Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Studies at McGill University, Montreal, and Honorary Visiting Associate at the Environmental Change Institute, Oxford. His books include Surviving Trauma: Loss, Literature, and Psychoanalysis (1989); Charisma in Politics, Religion and the Media (1996); National Poetry, Empires and War (2016); and Nationalism, War and Jewish Education (2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Bialik and National Poetry 1789-1914 1. The Jews under
Tsarist Rule: Between Hope and Despair 2. Bialik and National Poetry in the
Tsarist Empire 3. Bialik, Nationalism and the Hebrew Bible 4. From the
Bible to Bialik: Poetry of Zion 5. Between the Hebraic and the Greek:
Bialik and Tchernichowsky 6. Bialik, Aggadah and Jewish National Identity
7. Anti-Semitism and Hebrew Poetry: 1881-1948 8. Bialik, Wordsworth and the
Romantic Agony 9. Bialik and Freud: Childhood Screen Memories 10.
Childlessness and the Waste Land: Bialik and T.S. Eliot 11. The Artist as
Nation-Builder: Bialik and Yeats Conclusion: Damaged Archangels and
Charismatic National Poets