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תולדות הצורות של השירה העברית מן התנ"ך עד המודרניזם

Author: הרשב בנימין

Publisher: Bar-Ilan University Press

Publication Date: 2009

Original Publication Date: 2008

Subject: literature

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About this title

This volume traces the history of Hebrew versification from biblical poetry, through ancient Hebrew liturgy, medieval poetry, poetry of the Haskalah, and finally modern Hebrew poetry. After the biblical period, all systems of versification demanded umerical precision, according to standards influenced by literatures of different languages, all of which rejected the freedom of rime characteristic of biblical literature. Barring the odd exception, post-biblical Hebrew poetry did not adopt the complex and free structures of sound and rhythm found in biblical poetry. However, poetry throughout history, unlike Hebrew prose, has been founded on generations of biblical language. This book provides a systematic historical survey of Hebrew poetic meter throughout the ages, including a comprehensive study of Hebrew rime over a span of 1,500 years. The book focuses on an historical analysis. Rime is treated as one of the forms of poetry.The book concludes with a study of the transition from Ashke

About author

הרשב בנימין ---
Benjamin Harshav is Professor of Comparative Literature, Hebrew Language and Literature, and Slavic Languages and Literature at Yale University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Prof. Harshav founded the Tel-Aviv School of Poetics, The Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics and the academic jounal: Hasifrut / Literature at Tel-Aviv University. He is the recipient of the EMET Prize and the Koret Award for research on literary theory and Jewish culture. He published critical editions of his translations of Jewish poetry. He wrote three books on Marc Chagall in English and numerous works in Hebrew.

Contents

בפתח הספר

בפתח הספר

; ייצוגי הצלילים בספר— 9; תעתיקים ומבטא— 10

סימני משקלים— 10

חלק א׃ תולדות הצורות של השירה העברית 13

פרק ראשון׃ ההקשר ההיסטורי 15

פרק שני׃ מקצבי המקרא 26

פרק שלישי׃ התקופה הבתר־מקראית 41

פרק רביעי׃ הפיוט הקלאסי 46

פרק חמישי׃ השירה העברית בספרד 65

פרק שישי׃ השירה העברית באיטליה 86