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To Make the Hands Impure : Art, Ethical Adventure, the Difficult and the Holy /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2015.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
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- 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. Henry Darger, Blaise Pascal, 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 Scholem
- Epilogue: The Book in Hand, Again
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of Proper Names
- Index of Topics.