ENGL 3550 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Free Verse, Caesura, Concrete Poetry
29 Mar 2017
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Geographical: partly about borders that are visible and those that aren"t. Conceptual: in terms of thinking about cultural expression and way in which klepfisz take us to conceptual way of expression as well as conceiving borders. Political: many geographical borders are also political borders. Personal: borders of speakers own body, personal space (not necessarily separate borders/topics , ie geographical border is also a linguistic border. Are there are additional readings that are still relevant today ways in which read it contextualized w us. Biography: born into jewish ghetto, warsaw 1941. Born into horrors of wwii: father, michal klepfisz. Yiddish language: jewish language over 1000 yrs old. Greatly debilitated by and after the holocaust. Lang that there are speakers making deliberate efforts to revitalize and keep alive. Under threat: amalgam of hebrew, german, and slavic, yiddish assoc with daily life, female sphere ( the mother tongue ) Hebrew assoc with ritual, prayer, formal occasions: fundamentally oral language.
