Poetics and Politics in Yehuda Amichai's World

A conference at Yale University, October 20 & 21, 2007

 
 


Keynote Address
Benjamin Harshav, Yale University

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Morning Session
Chair, Paula Hyman, Yale University

Robert Alter ~ University of California, Berkeley
Yehuda Amichai: At Play in the Fields of Verse

Boaz Arpaly ~ Tel Aviv University
Worldview, Poetics, Political Significance:
Summing up Forty Years of Reading Amichai

Menakhem Perry ~ Tel-Aviv University
Facing the Dead: The New Poetics of the Young Amichai

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Afternoon Session
Chair, Kevin Repp, Yale University

Chana Kronfeld ~ University of California, Berkeley
Making Honey from all the Buzz and Babble:
Translation as Metaphor in the Poetry of Yehuda Amichai


Vered Shemtov ~ Stanford University
From Communal Prayers to Homeland Songs:
The Politics of Sound in Yehuda Amichai's Poetry

Ziva Ben Porat ~ Tel-Aviv University
Amichai's Poetics as Reflected in the Visual Arts

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Round Table Discussion
Paul Fry, Chair, Yale University
William Cutter, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion
Barbara Harshav, Yale University
Geoffrey Hartman, Yale University
Barbara Mann, Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Leon Wieseltier, The New Republic

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