Yair Mazor is Professor of Hebrew and Biblical Literature and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the author of numerous books, including Pain, Pining, and Pine Trees: Contemporary Hebrew Poetry and A Sense of Structure: Hebrew and Biblical Literature.

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Mapping Poetics, Documenting Ideology, and Above All, Being Motivated by Love

2. Since the Jackals' Lament Carries the Sound of Yearning: Intertextuality and Deconstruction in "Nomads and Viper"

3. The Father, the Son, and the Blowing of the Ill Wind, or Writing Strindberg from Right to Left

4. The Spy Who May Never Come in from the Cold: A Discussion of To Know a Woman

5. At Last, the Secret Double Agent Takes Off His Gloves and Removes the Mask: A Discussion of A Panther in the Basement

6. Essays Are Sometimes Masked Aesthetics: A Discussion of Under This Blazing Light

7. Some Rest at Last. Tracing a Literary Motif: The Motif of the Picture in A Perfect Peace and Beyond

8. Amos Oz Talk about Amos Oz: "Being I, Plus Being Myself" - An Interview with Hillit Yeshourun

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