| Description |
xvi, 272 pages ; 24 cm |
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SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture |
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SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture.
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| Contents |
11. Intertextuality and Reader Responsibility: Living On in Malamud's "The Mourners" / Sharon Deykin Baris -- 12. "The New Covenant" and the Dilemma of Dissensus: Bercovitch, Roth, and Doctorow / Sam B. Girgus |
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Introduction / Ellen Spolsky -- 1. Power and Constraint: Covenantal Hermeneutics in Milton / Harold Fisch -- 2. Biblical Covenants as Performative Language / Gerda Elata-Alster and Rachel Salmon -- 3. Facing the Other: Levinas, Perelman, and Rosenzweig / Susan Handelman -- 4. The Difficulty of Finding a Moral Basis for Accepting the Covenant / Daniel Statman -- 5. The Perpetual Covenant of Jewish Learning / Menachem Fisch -- 6. The Sign of the Covenant / Betty Rojtman -- 7. Redesigning Redemption: Covenant in The Testament of Moses / Betsy Halpern-Amaru -- 8. Placing Reading: Ancient Israel and Medieval Europe / Daniel Boyarin -- 9. Binding and Unbinding: The Summons to Interpretation in The Merchant of Venice / Elizabeth Freund -- 10. American Literature's Declaration of In/dependence: Stanley Cavell, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Covenant of Consent / Emily Miller Budick |
| Notes |
Papers of a conference sponsored by the Lechter Institute for Literary Research in cooperation with the Kaplan Fund for American Literature, held in the fall of 1989 at Bar-Ilan University, Israel |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Covenant theology in literature.
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Covenants -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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Judaism -- Essence, genius, nature.
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Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Religion and literature.
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| Author |
Spolsky, Ellen, 1943-
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| LC no. |
92023258 |
| ISBN |
0791415252 |
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0791415260 (paperback) |
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