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Textual Mirrors : Reflexivity, Midrash, and the Rabbinic Self /

In Textual Mirrors, Dina Stein draws on literary theory, folklore studies, and semiotics to closely examine midrashic tales in which self-reflexivity operates as a central element. Within these texts, rabbinic discourse itself becomes the object of reflection, both complicating and confirming its re...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Stein, Dina
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
Édition:1st ed.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Résumé:In Textual Mirrors, Dina Stein draws on literary theory, folklore studies, and semiotics to closely examine midrashic tales in which self-reflexivity operates as a central element. Within these texts, rabbinic discourse itself becomes the object of reflection, both complicating and confirming its religious and ideological principles.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (216 pages).
ISBN:9780812206944