Yair Mazor

Yair Mazor

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This book is the first to approach and portray contemporary Hebrew Israeli poetry that focuses on the Holocaust. It clusters a variety of contemporary Israeli poets whose poetry displays different 'doses' of Holocaust poems. Sometimes the book addresses aesthetically/ideologically a poet who wrote only very few Holocaust poems. In all cases, however, instead of developing a theoretical/methodological discussion, the book prefers to focus on individual poems while practicing close reading of them. These interpretive discussions unearth latent poetic currents in the poems while casting a new, surprising light upon their aesthetic mechanism and ideological proclivities. Yair Mazor is a professor of Hebrew Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee....

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Approaching the Hebrew Bible as a work of literary art, Yair Mazor examines its many genres, including historical narratives, poetic narratives, poetry, psalms, and songs. Line drawings from a late nineteenth-century Bible illustrate many of the most famous scenes in scripture, suggesting another aesthetic layer of the text. By breaking the Bible into constituent parts, Mazor traces the range of its writing styles, reconfiguring the work as a literary collage and an artistic masterpiece. He shows how the aesthetics of the texts that comprise the Bible serve its over-arching message, and he develops a literary portrait of its authors by decoding their cryptic aesthetic devices.  
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