UID:
almafu_9960024640602883
Format:
1 online resource (IX, 211 p.)
ISBN:
9783110643022
Series Statement:
Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts , 11
Content:
This book offers a fresh reflection on The Book of Questions by the French-Egyptian Jewish writer Edmond Jabès and its readings, and proposes to re-contextualize Jabès' enigmatic prose through the lens of the author’s manuscripts. Addressed are the main prisms through which Jabès’ oeuvre has been read since its publication in 1963: Jewishness, the Shoah, intertextuality with Midrash and Kabbalah, hermeticism and interpretation. It analyzes their shapes and their becoming in the work-in-progress, reveals the dynamics and the contexts of their evolution from the pre-texts to the text and beyond, and reflects on the relationship between creation, interpretation, and writing as a process. It seeks to rethink our reading of The Book of Questions and the poetics and hermeneutics of enigmatic writing.
Note:
Frontmatter --
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Acknowledgements --
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Contents --
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Abbreviations --
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Introduction: Enigmas, Beneath and Beyond --
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Part I: Before the Book --
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1 Jews in Egypt. First Pre-texts --
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2 The Tale of Jacques. The Hidden Narrative of the Book --
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3 On Being Jewish. Writing and Rewriting --
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4 Rabbis, Poets, Commentators. The Addition of Text --
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5 From Bible to Book. Local and Metatextual Translations --
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6 Becoming Book. Archaeology of a Preface --
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Part II: The Paths Toward Metaphor --
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Chapter 1 Jewishness Deconstructed --
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Chapter 2 Un-Writing the Holocaust --
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Part III: The Book and Its Pre-Texts. Theoretical Questions --
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Chapter 3 Manuscripts, Intertextuality, Hermeneutics --
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Chapter 4 The Book, the Palimpsest, and the Graffiti. Archaeological Reflections on the Open Text --
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Bibliography
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110640786
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110629552
Language:
English
Subjects:
Theology
DOI:
10.1515/9783110643022
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110643022
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110643022
