Three Thousand Years of Hebrew Verse

In this unparalleled study of the forms of Hebrew poetry, preeminent authority Benjamin Harshav examines Hebrew verse during three millennia of changing historical and cultural contexts. He takes us around the world of the Jewish Diaspora, comparing the changes in Hebrew verse as it came into contact with the Canaanite, Greek, Arabic, Italian, German, Russian, Yiddish, and English poetic forms. Harshav explores the types and constraints of free rhythms, the meanings of sound patterns, the historical and linguistic frameworks that produced the first accentual iambs in English, German, Russian, Hebrew, and the first discovery of these iambs in a Yiddish romance written in Venice in 1508. In each chapter, the author presents an innovative analytical theory on a particular poetic domain, drawing on his close study of thousands of Hebrew poems.

ISBN 0300144873   DEWEY edition DC23 ISBN13 9780300144871 (What's this?)   Pages 320 Publisher Yale University Press   Published in New Haven Imprint Yale University Press   Height (mm) 234 Format Hardback   Width (mm) 156 Publication date 26 May 2012   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate DEWEY 892.41009

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