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Three Thousand Years of Hebrew Versification - Essays in Comparative Prosody (Hardcover, New)
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Three Thousand Years of Hebrew Versification - Essays in Comparative Prosody (Hardcover, New)
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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, and Hebrew, and the discovery of these
iambs in a Yiddish romance written in Venice in 1508/09. 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.
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