Kritz, Ori
The Poetics of Anarchy

David Edelshtat's Revolutionary Poetry.

This book treats the poet's biography and explores major thematical, political and social aspects of his poetry, its revolutionary function, the poet's role as a political agitator and the press's role as a mediator. The book also examines the diction and prosody of the poems and contributes to the theory of political poetry and the rhetoric of revolution. David Edelshtat (1866-1892), a pioneer of Yiddish social poetry and one of the most prominent figures among communist anarchists, was born in Russia and immigrated to the United States (1882). He became a central poet during his lifetime and a legend among revolutionaries and Yiddish poets of subsequent generations, despite his short literary career which spanned a mere three and a half years (1889-1892). He was involved in the emergence of American Yiddish literature and journalism, and American Radicalism. 210 Seiten, broschiert (Europäische Hochschulschriften. Reihe XVIII: Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Band 88/Peter Lang Verlag 1997) Mängelexemplar