Sodomscapes : : Hospitality in the Flesh / / Lowell Gallagher.
Sodomscapes presents a fresh approach to the story of Lot’s wife, as it’s been read across cultures and generations. In the process, it reinterprets foundational concepts of ethics, representation, and the body. While the sudden mutation of Lot’s wife in the flight from Sodom is often read to confir...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface: Entering Sodomscape
- Introduction: Figural Moorings of Hospitality in Sodomscape
- 1. Exodus, Interrupted: Lot’s Wife and the Allegorical Interval
- 2. The Rise of Prophecy: Figural Neuter, Desert of Allegory
- 3. Remembering Lot’s Wife: The Structure of Testimony in the Painted Life of Mary Ward
- 4. Avant-Garde Lot’s Wife: Natalia Goncharova’s Salt Pillars and the Rebirth of Hospitality
- 5. Soundings in Sodomscape: Biblical Purity Codes, Spa Clinics, and the Ends of Immunity
- 6. The Face of the Contemporary: Lost World Fantasies of Finding Lot’s Wife
- 7. Out of Africa: Albert Memmi’s Desert of Allegory in The Pillar of Salt
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index