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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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2016 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) |
| Repository: | Arquivo Maaravi: Revista Digital de Estudos Judaicos da UFMG |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.ufmg.br:article/14320 |
| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/maaravi/article/view/14320 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Poema Hebraico Amichai Poem Hebrew |
| Summary: | 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". |
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