Böcker av Chana Kronfeld

The Full Severity of Compassion is both a modular retrospective of Yehuda Amichai's poetric project and a reassessment-by attending closely to the theory embedded in the poetry-of major issues in contemporary literary studies, from the politics of form to radical allusion, and from metaphor to translation.

This text counters dominant models of marginality by looking at modernist poetry written in two decentred languages, Hebrew and Yiddish. What results is a model of literary dynamics, one less tied to canonical norms, less limited geographically and less likely to universalize minority experiences.