Figuring Jerusalem : Politics and Poetics in the Sacred Center /
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| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English. |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2022]
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Table of 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