9780820704203 - Levinas & Medieval Literature: The "Difficult Reading" of English & Rabbinic Texts: The "Difficult Reading" of English and Rabbinic Texts (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo in dust jacket, x, 374 pp., notes, index Articles are "Before the Face of the Book: A Levinasian Pre-face," Astell and Jackson, "Difficult Reading," Valerie Allen, "Levinas, Allegory, and Chaucer's 'Clerk's Tale,'" Susan Yager, "'In his eyes stood a light, not beautiful': Levinas, Hospilatlity, 'Beowulf,'" Eileen A. Joy, "There is Horror: 'The Awntyrs off Arthure,' the Face of the Dead, and the Maternal Order," 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 throgh 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 Desires," Sandor Goodheart, "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.

Hardcover with dust jacket. 384 S., Like new. Shrink wrapped. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 830.

First edition. 384 pages. This collection of essays puts into dialogue the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas with a variety of English and rabbinic writings from the Middle Ages, when literature was regarded as ethical discourse, and reading itself, when rightly performed, was seen as a moral act. New cloth bound in dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 374 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.