Natasha Gordinsky, Bishloshah nofim: yetziratah hamukdemet shel Leah Goldberg (In Three Landscapes: Leah Goldberg’s Early Writings). Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2016. 222 pp.

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Hebrew Culture ◽  
Leah Goldberg

This chapter reviews the books Bishloshah nofim: yetziratah hamukdemet shel Leah Goldberg (In Three Landscapes: Leah Goldberg’s Early Writings) (2016), by Natasha Gordinsky, and Nesi’ah venesi’ah medumah: Leah Goldberg begermanyah 1930–1933 (Journey and Imaginary Journey: Leah Goldberg in Germany, 1930–1933) (2014), by Yfaat Weiss. Both In Three Landscapes and Journey and Imaginary Journey focus on the career of Leah Goldberg, a modernist poet, novelist, playwright, and literary critic, and the role she played in Hebrew culture from the 1940s onward. The books explore how Goldberg was shaped by her firsthand witnessing of the Nazi rise to power and how she grappled with the scope of Nazi genocide in its aftermath. They highlight Goldberg’s importance as a European and Hebrew intellectual, whose modernist and humanist commitments shaped the direction of Israeli letters in the second half of the twentieth century.

TRADITION AND INNOVATION IN USMON KUCHKOR'S POEMS

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 100-111
Author(s):  
Nasiba Norova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Human Heart ◽  
Visual Features ◽  
Spiritual Experiences ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
Specific Product ◽  
Political Views ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Way

Introduction. The article discusses the poetic innovations, formal and stylistic peculiarities in the work of the talented poet Usmon Kuchkor. The poet's “muqarnas” are analyzed. The second half of the twentieth century and the period of independence have a special significance with Uzbek poetry, its charm, new tones and visual features. Methodological and formal research, the renewal of artistic thinking, the human heart and spiritual experiences, the vivid depiction of emotions form the basis of this poetry. In this, the importance of artistic thinking in particular is immeasurable. As the literary critic N. Rakhmonov noted: "The multifaceted and multilayered phenomenon - the concept of artistic thinking is a specific product of philosophical, ethical and political views, manifested in the way of thinking of the artist" [7,4]. Methods.

Old Testament Realism in the Writings of Erich Auerbach

2018 ◽  
pp. 187-224
Author(s):  
James I. Porter
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
The West ◽  
The Real ◽  
Historical Thought

This chapter studies the work of the German literary critic Erich Auerbach, who wrote in response to the historical upheaval of the mid-twentieth century as a form of historical engagement. In his work, Auerbach endeavors to portray the evolution of historical consciousness in the West and the discovery of the human and social worlds it yielded. He reflects on this evolution in relating the narrative of realism. In this account, realism is not a literary genre, but rather the evolving recognition of human consciousness of its own conditions, the growing awareness, that is, that reality and the real inhere in the sensuous, the mundane, and the human. At the center of this narrative, Auerbach places Judaism and its heritage rather than Christianity. For Auerbach, history and historical consciousness first appear in the Jewish biblical stories, which provide in turn the structure and the framework for all subsequent expressions of historical thought and experience.

Bialik, Hayim Nahman (H. N.) (1873–1934)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miryam Segal
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Folk Song ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Hebrew Poetry ◽  
Textual Tradition ◽  
Literary Revival ◽  
Modern Hebrew ◽  
Song Lyrics ◽  
Long Poems ◽  
Hebrew Culture

Hayim Nahman Bialik was one of the most influential and widely-read Hebrew poets of the twentieth century. He revitalized modern Hebrew poetry with his romantic tropes, intense introspection, allusive irony and modernist treatment of language. Together with Shaul Tchernichovsky, his peer in the literary revival of the turn of the century, Bialik re-invented the sound of Hebrew poetry by introducing accentual-syllabic meter to Hebrew. Bialik was born into a religious and very poor family, and engaged with the Jewish textual tradition even after leaving behind, first, his Hasidic upbringing, and then the more rationalist and intellectual but ultimately unsatisfying world of the famous Volozhin yeshiva. Bialik spent the better part of three very productive decades in Odessa, the capital of the literary revival in which he was received as a young literary talent, then as national poet and one of the foremost Hebrew writers. He wrote lyric poetry, long poems, poems in the form of folk-song lyrics, children’s poetry and essay, and was an important figure in Hebrew publishing, with a particular interest in preserving the ‘Jewish Bookcase’ of classic works for secular Hebrew culture.

Divine Text, National Language, and Their Publics: Arguing an Indonesian Qur'an

2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 758-785 ◽  
Author(s):  
Webb Keane
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
National Language ◽  
Local Form ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Transnational Community ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Arabic Speaking ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

AbstractThe entry of a universal revelation into the mundane world of language threatens to be paradoxical: it must take a specific and local form. As such, it becomes implicated in nationalist, ethnic, linguistic, and other sources of community. This article centers on a small melodrama in late twentieth-century Indonesia, home to the largest number of Muslims of any country. After undergoing a mid-life spiritual awakening, H. B. Jassin, a modernist literary critic, editor, and ardent defender of freedom of expression, undertook two projects intended to convey the aesthetic power of the Qur'an to a non-Arabic speaking public. But if Qur'anic Arabic summons a transnational community of the faithful, standardized Indonesian was developed to address a nation of citizens. If scripture speaks in a divine, uncreated idiom, the national language is shaped by human efforts. Jassin's career had served a vision of literature and its public whose values and semiotic ideologies were dramatically at odds with Qur'anic traditions. Although this may appear at first glance to be a familiar story of progress and its opponents, this article asks whether Jassin's critics grasped something about signs and communities that his defenders did not. Examining the furor that resulted from his Qur'ans, it explores an array of conflicting assumptions about language, freedom, truth, and people's lives together in the late twentieth century.

From the Heights of Mount Scopus

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel B. Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Early Development ◽  
Intellectual Biography ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Shadow Cast ◽  
Hebrew Culture

This chapter contends that the issue of Spinoza's Jewish or even proto-Zionist credentials was only the surface of the debate over the appropriation of him for Jewish nationalism. It examines three contexts for the appropriation of Spinoza by Russian Zionist scholar and Hebrew literary critic, Yosef Klausner (1874–1958). The chapter begins by tracing the origins and early development of the Zionist recovery of Spinoza, focusing on the major trends and ideological frames in this reception to which Klausner was heir. It then turns to Klausner's own intellectual biography, focusing in particular on his conflicted feelings over the course a secularization of Hebrew culture should take. Finally, the chapter studies the shadow cast on Klausner's lifting of the herem (ban) on Spinoza by concomitant developments in the reception of Spinoza outside the realm of Jewish nationalism.

Wilson, Edmund (1895–1972)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Copeland
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Modern Literature ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Imaginative Literature ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Cultural Taste ◽  
Formal Properties

American literary critic, editor, playwright, novelist and journalist Edmund Wilson’s key critical texts trace the development of twentieth-century Anglo-American writing. Wilson’s Axel’s Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870–1930 (1931), through which a ‘generation discovered modern literature’ (Dabney 158), was the culmination of his first and most influential period as an arbiter of cultural taste. Charting its authors’ absorption of symbolist technique, particularly their privileging of image and the formal properties of music, and its consequent impact on readership, Wilson found aesthetic unity in writing which eschewed the narrative connectives that readers of prose and poetry had come to expect.

Антитези і парадокси у поезії. До 110 роковин з дня народження Б. І. Антонича

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 137-147
Author(s):  
Lidia Stefanowska
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Premature Death ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Poetic Language ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Human Need

Bohdan Ihor Antonych was one of the most remarkable modernist Ukrainian poets of the twentieth century. He left an extraordinary lite rary legacy with just a handful of books of published poetry despite his premature death at the age of twenty-eight in 1937. He was a poet, literary critic, translator, and journalist. From the outset of his literary career, in the context of western Ukrainian literature, his poetry had a diff erent sound and texture to it. Antonych’s literary interests were unconventional for his milieu: he concerned himself with the metaphysical, philosophical, and metapoetic issues. The power of his accomplishment is that he restored the human need, suppressed by centuries of colonization, for metaphysical, non-political meditation on the meaning of life, eternity and art, rather than -- as it was in a previous Ukrainian literary canon -- in the name of national interests, where literature had to play a didactic role designed to amplify the patriotic feelings of a reader. Antonych mastered the poetic language of antithesis and paradoxes, and by using it he rises from the level of personal experience to that of a universal archetype.

scholarly journals Cuentistas mexicanos modernos, entre tópicos, cánones y creación crítica

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lourdes Castañón
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Mexican Literature ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Alfonso Reyes

Cuentistas mexicanos modernos is a short story anthology of fiction stories that bring together Mexican authors of the 1950’s. This anthology was compiled by Emmanuel Carballo, a Mexican literary critic, journalist and promotor of cultural affairs during the second half of the twentieth century. This analysis focuses on the prologue and profiles broached in the anthology, as well as on the very concept of anthology. Alfonso Reyes, Alberto Porqueras, and Justo Serna provide the theoretical basis for the study, which sets aside the stories gathered in the publication and concentrates mainly on topics which Carballo treated, like Mexicanism and tradition. In addition, he established a canon: the division of Mexican literature into realist and fantastic veins. At the same time, he practiced what became known as critical creation on the authors anthologized in this 1956 publication.

scholarly journals BOHDAN LEPKY`S LITERARY CRITICISM IN “SLOVANSKÝ PŘEHLED” JOURNALLITERARY CRITICISM IN “SLOVANSKÝ PŘEHLED” JOURNAL

2019 ◽  
pp. 162-174
Author(s):  
Vasyl BUDNYI ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Critical Writing ◽  
Artistic Value ◽  
Cultural Concepts ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Literary Process ◽  
Group B

Abstract Background: A famous literary critic and writer, representative of the “Moloda Muza” group, B. Lepky was published in numerous Ukrainian and foreign journals in the early twentieth century. Today, his cooperation with Polish and German editions has been partially explored, but the Czech direction remains almost unclear. There are only individual references to B. Lepky's cultural publications in the “Slovanský přehled” journal in the works of V. Doroshenko, V. Lev, B. Rubchak. Purpose: The purpose of the study is to analyze the interpretative bases of B. Lepky's publications in “Slovanský přehled”, namely, five annual reviews of Ukrainian literature (1901, 1902, 1903, 1905, 1906) and three cultural pieces of knowledge: about the composer M. Lysenko, about the translation of short stories by M. Kotsiubynsky into Polish, and the scientific works of M. Hrushevsky, B. Barvinsky and V. Shchurat. Results: B. Lepky followed I. Franko in editing “Slovanský přehled” journal. I. Franko prepared the ground for the Czechs to familiarize them with Ukrainian literature. In a series of annual reviews, B. Lepky considered Ukrainian literature in the pan-European context, translating the realities of national culture into the language of universal cultural concepts. Not contradicting realism and modernism, the critic appraised the high artistic value of the works by Lesya Ukrainka, V. Stefanyk, M. Kotsyubynsky, O. Kobylyanska, which were marked by modern stylistic trends. Trying to convey the original content to the foreign reader, B. Lepky approached his critical speech to the poetic one, painting it with impressionistic strokes and symbolic imagery. The author concluded that the importance of B. Lepky’s Czech publications was important for understanding the ways in which Ukrainian writing was modernized and contextualized in Slavic and pan-European culture in the early twentieth century. Key words: Modernism period, literary process, critical writing, literary review, review, contextualization, impressionism, symbolism.

Poetics

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Dowling
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
Journal Article ◽  
New Work ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Racial Capitalism ◽  
The World ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

Abstract This chapter surveys scholarship in poetics published in 2019 that engages with concepts of ‘world’. I begin from the contention that poetics scholarship is at a crossroads: while questions of race, nation, and politics were often cast aside in poetry criticism of the late twentieth century in favor of considerations of modernist lineages and philosophical approaches to language, new work in poetics increasingly prioritizes the discussion of racial capitalism, colonialism, and dispossession. The review is divided into four sections: 1. Introduction; 2. Poetry and the World, which considers three works that discuss poetry in relationship to world literature; 3. Worlds of Poetry, which examines three works that consider the so-called poetry world; and 4. Conclusion. The works discussed in this review include two scholarly monographs, a collection of experimental essays by a poet-critic and translator, an introduction to poetry by a poet and literary critic, a short polemic by a poet-critic and ethnic studies scholar, and a journal article exemplifying what I take to be the most significant new direction in poetics scholarship, namely the re-evaluation of apparently abstract, depersonalized formal and generic categories through the analytic of race.

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