To make the hands impure : art, ethical adventure, the difficult and the holy /

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"How can cradling, handling, or rubbing a text be said, ethically, to have made something happen? What, as readers or interpreters, may come off in our hands in as we maculate or mark the books we read? For Adam Zachary Newton, reading is anembodied practice wherein "ethics" becomes a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Newton, Adam Zachary (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Edición:First edition.
Temas:
Lévinas, Emmanuel > Criticism and interpretation.
Levinas, Emmanuel > Criticism and interpretation.
Lévinas, Emmanuel.
1900-2099
Philosophy, Modern > 20th century.
Philosophy, Modern > 21st century.
Art and morals.
Ethics in literature.
Reader-response criticism.
Philosophie > 20e siècle.
Philosophie > 21e siècle.
Art et morale.
Morale dans la littérature.
Esthétique de la réception.
RELIGION > Judaism > Theology.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Philosophy, Modern.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Prologue: Meaningful Adjacencies; Introduction: Laws of Tact and Genre; Part One / Hands; 1. Pledge, Turn, Prestige: Worldliness and Sanctity in Edward Said and Emmanuel Levinas; 2. Sollicitation and Rubbing the Text: Reading Said and Levinas Reading; 3. Blaise Pascal, Henry Darger, and the Book in Hand; Part Two / Genres; 4. Ethics of Reading I: Levinas and the Talmud; 5. Ethics of Reading II: Bakhtin and the Novel; 6. Ethics of Reading III: Cavell and Theater/Cinema; Part Three / Languages.
  • 7. Abyss, Volcano, and the Frozen Swirl of Words: The Difficult and the Holy in Agnon, Bialik, and ScholemEpilogue: The Book in Hand, Again; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Proper Names; Index of Topics and Works.

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