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Levinas and medieval literature : the "difficult reading" of English and rabbinic texts
- Title
- Levinas and medieval literature : the "difficult reading" of English and rabbinic texts / edited by Ann W. Astell & J.A. Jackson.
- Publication
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, c2009.
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- Description
- x, 374 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Twelve essays take the unique approach of connecting Christian allegory, talmudic hermeneutics, and Levinasian interpretation, as authors put into dialogue the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas with a variety of English and rabbinic writings from the Middle Ages, thus illuminating what it means to classify medieval texts as profoundly ethical"--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-357) and index.
- Contents
- Before the face of the book: a Levinasian pre-face / Ann W. Astell and J.A. Jackson -- Difficult reading / Valerie Allen -- Levinas, allegory, and Chaucer's Clerk's tale / Susan Yager -- "In his eyes stood a light, not beautiful": Levinas, hospitality, Beowulf / Eileen A. Joy -- There is horror: the Awntyrs off Arthure, the face of the dead, and the maternal other / Alexander L. Kaufman -- Doing justice to Isaac: Levinas, The Akedah, and the Brome play of Abraham and Isaac / Daniel T. Kline -- The personificational face: Piers plowman rethought through Levinas and Bronowski / James J. Paxson -- The infinite desire of Pearl / J.A. Jackson -- Criseyde's chances: courtly love and ethics about to come / J. Allan Mitchell -- The wound of the infinite: rereading Levinas through Rashi's commentary on The song of songs / Cynthia Kraman -- "A land that devours its inhabitants" midrashic reading, Levinas, and medieval literary exegesis / Sandor Goodhart -- When pardon is impossible: two Talmudic tales, Chaucer's Pardoner's tale, and Levinas / Ann W. Astell -- Those evil goslings, those evil stories: letting the boys out of their cave / Moshe Gold.
- Call Number
- *PAS 10-1006
- ISBN
- 9780820704203 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0820704202 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780820704210 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0820704210 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009001681
- OCLC
- YBP 2009001681
- Title
- Levinas and medieval literature : the "difficult reading" of English and rabbinic texts / edited by Ann W. Astell & J.A. Jackson.
- Imprint
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-357) and index.
- Added Author
- Astell, Ann W.Jackson, J. A. (Justin A.), 1972-
- Research Call Number
- *PAS 10-1006