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9780300144871

Three Thousand Years of Hebrew Versification; Essays in Comparative Prosody

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300144871

  • ISBN10:

    0300144873

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2013-11-26
  • Publisher: Yale University Press

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This unprecedented book on comparative prosody explores the history of Hebrew verse during three millennia of changing cultural and linguistic contexts. Benjamin Harshav offers an innovative approach to the free rhythms of biblical poetry and prose, examines the brilliant invention of rhyme by the Paitanthe earliest rhyme in the Mediterranian worldand the discovery of accentual-syllabic meters, which have since dominated English, German, Russian, and Hebrew poetry for centuries, in a Yiddish romance written in 1508. The book explores the constraints and kinds of modern free rhythms as exemplified in Yiddish poetry.

Author Biography

Benjamin Harshav is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and J. & H. Blaustein Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature, Yale University, and Professor Emeritus of Literary Theory, Tel Aviv University. He lives in North Haven, CT.

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