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9:30-11:30 | Amichai’s Poetry: Contexts | Chair: Efrat Gal-Ed
Nili Gold | Expanding the Definition of the Term ‘Corpus’ for the Reading of a Single Poem
Giddon Ticotsky | Demystifying Poetry
Tamar Sovran | Amichai Between Words and Sounds: from Vilensky and Argov to Keren Peles and Alon Eder
11:30-12:00 | Coffee Break
12:00-13:30 | “Not like a Cypress”: Amichai’s Figurative Language | Chair: Tamar Sovran
Tamar Wolf-Monzon | “Ki-frusot le-yom ‘avodah”: On the Figurative and Rhetorical
Characteristics of the Images in Amichai’s Early Poetry
Vered Tohar | Fractures and Fragments: The Typology of Stones in Yehuda Amichai’s Poetry and Its Significance
Menakhem Perry | Nearby, a Little to the Left and Downwards: Metonymic Amichai Against Metaphorical Amichai
13:30-15:00 | Luncheon (by invitation only)
15:00-16:30 Amichai in Translation | Chair: Rafi Weichert
Efrat Gal-Ed | Towards the Foreign Reaper: Yehuda Amichai Translates Else Lasker-Schüler
Keren Alkalay-Gut | America’s Romance with Amichai
Na’ama Rokem | “Tsipor” and “Tsipor sheniyah”: Amichai Translates Zach
16:30-17:00 | Coffee Break
17:00-18:30 | Language and Form in Amichai’s Works | Chair: Vered Tohar
Rafi Weichert | Two by Two: Thoughts on Couplets in the Poetry of Amichai and His Peers
Dorit Lemberger | The Twelfth Commandment: Speech-genres in Amichai's Poetry
Neta Dan | “The Visit of the Queen of Sheba”: Bible, Drawing, and Language
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