The Typological Imaginary : : Circumcision, Technology, History / / Kathleen Biddick.

In this book Kathleen Biddick investigates the fate of the enduring timelines fabricated by early Christians to distinguish themselves from their Jewish neighbors. Ranging widely across the history of text, technology, and book art, she relates three interwoven stories: the Christians' translat...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]
©2003
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (160 p.) :; 16 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction: Typology Never Lets Go
  • Chapter 1. Christians Mapping Jews: Cartography, Temporality, and the Typological Imaginary
  • Chapter 2. Printing Excision: The Graphic Afterlife of Medieval Universal Histories
  • Chapter 3. Graphic Reoccupation, the Faithful Synagogue, and Foucault's Genealogy
  • Chapter 4. Lachrymose History, the Typological Imaginary, and the Lacanian Enlightenment
  • Chapter 5. Translating the Foreskin
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments