Experienced Soul: Studies in Amichai, The

By Abramson, Glenda and David Patterson (Eds.)
Westview Press, 1997, Hardcover, 171 pp., Out of print, ISBN: 081332730X

The world's leading authorities on Israel's foremost poet, Yehuda Amichai, explore all the major genres and themes of his work.

The result is an important book, a unique and comprehensive scholarly overview of a major 20th-century literary figure.

Thirteen authorities on Amichai explore all the themes of his poetry, drama, fiction, and stories for children. The variety of essays reveals a variety of approaches to this work, as well as complex layers of concealed meaning, idiosyncratic use of interests and textual allusions, and a language that sometimes incorporates linguistic and poetic structures, which are more common to feminine discourse.

The contributors include Abd El-Khalik Gobah, Arnold J. Band, Ziva Shamir, Boaz Arpaly, Masha Itzhaki, Glenda Abramson, Ziva Feldman, Nili Scharf Gold, Gershon Shaked, Gabriella Moscati Steindler, Risa Domb, Leon I. Yudkin, and Menucha Gilboa. Indexed.