A new sound in Hebrew poetry : poetics, politics, accent

A new sound in Hebrew poetry : poetics, politics, accent / Miryam Segal.

With scrupulous attention to landmark poetic texts and to educational and critical discourse in early 20th-century Palestine, Miryam Segal traces the emergence of a new accent to replace the Ashkenazic or European Hebrew accent in which almost all modern Hebrew poetry had been composed until the 192...

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Main Author: Segal, Miryam
Format: eBook
Language:English
Hebrew
Published: Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, ©2010.
Series:Jewish literature and culture.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Hebrew language > Pronunciation > History > 20th century.
Hebrew poetry, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Hebrew language > Revival.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Hebrew.
Hebrew language > Pronunciation
Hebrew language > Revival
Hebrew poetry, Modern
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Acknowledgments; A Note on Transliteration; Introduction; 1. "Make Your School a Nation-State" Pedagogy and the Rise of the New Accent; 2. Representing a Nation in Sound Organic, Hybrid, and Synthetic Hebrews; 3. "Listening to Her Is Torture": The Menace of a Male Voice in a Woman's Body; 4. The Runaway Train and the Yiddish Kid Shlonsky's Double Inscription; Epilogue: The Conundrum of the National Poet; Appendix 1.; Appendix 2.; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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