Front Matter -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Mapping Poetics, Documenting Ideology, and Above All, Being Motivated by Love -- Since the Jackals' Lament Carries the Sound of Yearning: Intertextuality and Deconstruction in "Nomads and Viper" -- The Father, the Son, and the Blowing of the Ill Wind, or Writing Strindberg from Right to Left -- The Spy Who May Never Come in from the Cold: A Discussion of To Know a Woman -- At Last, the Secret Double Agent Takes Off His Gloves and Removes the Mask: A Discussion of A Panther in the Basement -- Essays Are Sometimes Masked Aesthetics:A Discussion of Under This Blazing Light -- Some Rest at Last. Tracing a Literary Motif: The Motif of the Picture in A Perfect Peace and Beyond -- Amos Oz Talks about Amos Oz: "Being I, Plus Being Myself "-An Interview with Hillit Yeshourun -- Back Matter -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Literary and Critical Works -- Index of Authors and Artists -- Back Cover.