The Language of Love Through the Hebrew Language: Reading Amichai’s ‘Layla’

This article is a reading of "Layla" by Yehuda Amichai, a deceptively simple poem, which is built upon a systematic part with morphological qualities and possibilities of grammar of the Hebrew language. I say that, playing with suffixes in Hebrew and number and gender markers, and lead to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Balbuena, Monique Rodrigues
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Repositorio:Arquivo Maaravi: Revista Digital de Estudos Judaicos da UFMG
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:periodicos.ufmg.br:article/14320
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/maaravi/article/view/14320
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Poema
Hebraico
Amichai
Poem
Hebrew
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Sumario:This article is a reading of "Layla" by Yehuda Amichai, a deceptively simple poem, which is built upon a systematic part with morphological qualities and possibilities of grammar of the Hebrew language. I say that, playing with suffixes in Hebrew and number and gender markers, and lead to estrangement and subverting the expectations of the average Hebrew reader/speaker, Amichai works in the sense that it provides as a "language of love".