Research Catalog

Figuring Jerusalem : Politics and Poetics in the Sacred Center

Title
Figuring Jerusalem : Politics and Poetics in the Sacred Center / Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi.
Author
Ezrahi, Sidra DeKoven
Publication
  • Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2022]
  • ©2022

Available Online

Available from home with a valid library card

Details

Additional Authors
EBSCOhost
Description
1 online resource.
Subject
  • Hebrew literature > History and criticism
  • Jerusalem, Zion, Temple, Divine Presence, Akeda, Song of Songs, mimetic cultures
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic reproduction.
Language (note)
  • In English.
Contents
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Note on Hebrew Transliteration -- Prologue "Why Jerusalem?" The Politics of Poetry -- 1 Introduction "This House, which is called by My Name" -- Part I Literary Archaeologies -- 1 "Yes, you did laugh!": The Secret of the Akeda -- 2 "You are as majestic as Jerusalem": The Song and the City -- 3 "Apples of gold in ornaments of silver": Maimonides's Guide to the Poetic Imagination -- Part II Agnon's Dilemma -- 4 "What may this be likened to?": Agnon and the Poetics of Space -- 5 "Every day I have regretted not having stood in the breach": Agnon in Jerusalem -- Part III Amichai in the Breach -- 6 "He comes out of a swimming pool or the sea . . . and he laughs and blesses": Yehuda Amichai, Poet of the Sacred Quotidian -- 7 "Visit my tears and the east wind, which is the true Western Wall": Amichai in Jerusalem -- Coda -- Acknowledgments: Ancient Debts and Ongoing Gratitude -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Biblical Citations
ISBN
  • 022678763X
  • 9780226787633
LCCN
10.7208/chicago/9780226787633
OCLC
om1660428626
Author
Ezrahi, Sidra DeKoven, author. Author. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
Title
Figuring Jerusalem : Politics and Poetics in the Sacred Center / Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi.
Publisher
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2022]
Copyright Date
©2022
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Language
In English.
Source of description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mrz 2022).
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Indexed Term
Jerusalem, Zion, Temple, Divine Presence, Akeda, Song of Songs, mimetic cultures.
Added Author
EBSCOhost
Other Standard Identifier
10.7208/chicago/9780226787633 doi
View in Legacy Catalog