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- Title
A BOAT OF LIGHT: ZOHARIC IMAGES IN ZELDA'S POETRY.
- Authors
Kann, Nitsa
- Abstract
The article considers how Jewish mystical imagery figures in the poems of the twentieth-century Israeli poet Zelda. The author discusses the role of both types of texts in aspiring to express the inexpressible through close readings of Zelda's modern poems with the kabbalistic texts of the "Zohar." The author argues that Zelda's poems call forth the diverse character of the divine female, the Shekhinah, as a trope for the female's vantage point on herself.
- Subjects
MYSTICISM &; poetry; ISRAELI poetry; ZOHAR; ZELDA, 1914-1984; ISRAELI poets; FIGURES of speech; PRESENCE of God
- Publication
Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues, 2010, Issue 19, p64
- ISSN
0793-8934
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.2979/NAS.2010.-.19.64