FROM RENAISSANCE TO RENAISSANCE. [VOLUME] II: HEBREW LITERATURE IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL, 1870 - 1970

New York, Ktav Publishing, 1977. Hardcover. Original Publisher's Cloth. 8vo. Ix, 427 pages. 24cm. Series: From Renaissance to Renaissance. CONTENTS: Hebrew Literature in its Ancestral Home --- Singer of the Desacralized Land --- Rediscovery of Landscape --- Poet in Prose --- The Avant-Gardists --- The Neo-Liturgical Poets --- The Poets of Jerusalem --- The Revolutioner of the Hebrew Language: Abraham Shlonsky --- Holocaust --- Dissociation and Discontinuity in Contemporary Hebrew Literature --- Disengaged Poetry --- Mysticism in Poetry --- Poetry and Prose of Women --- The Rediscovery of Oriental Jewry in Hebrew Literature --- The Totality of Jewry in the Works of Hayyim Hazaz --- The Historical Novel --- Contemporary Israel in Contemporary Fiction and Poetry: Jew and Rural Renascence; Peasant and Poet --- Jew and Arab --- Children's Paradise --- Neglected Areas in Hebrew Literature: Drama, Humor, Criticism --- Hebrew Literature as Source of Untapped Values. SUBJECTS: Hebrew literature, Modern -- History and criticism. Israeli literature -- History and criticism. Publisher's announcement pamphlet for "World Jewry and the State of Israel" laid in. Bright, clean copy in Very Good Condition with good jacket. (BIBLIOG-28-10).