Edmond Jabès and the Archaeology of the Book : : Text, Pre-Texts, Contexts / / Tsivia Wygoda Frank.
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 be...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (IX, 211 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Enigmas, Beneath and Beyond -- Part I: Before the Book -- 1 Jews in Egypt. First Pre-texts -- 2 The Tale of Jacques. The Hidden Narrative of the Book -- 3 On Being Jewish. Writing and Rewriting -- 4 Rabbis, Poets, Commentators. The Addition of Text -- 5 From Bible to Book. Local and Metatextual Translations -- 6 Becoming Book. Archaeology of a Preface -- Part II: The Paths Toward Metaphor -- Chapter 1 Jewishness Deconstructed -- Chapter 2 Un-Writing the Holocaust -- Part III: The Book and Its Pre-Texts. Theoretical Questions -- Chapter 3 Manuscripts, Intertextuality, Hermeneutics -- Chapter 4 The Book, the Palimpsest, and the Graffiti. Archaeological Reflections on the Open Text -- Bibliography |
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Summary: | 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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110643022 9783110750720 9783110750706 9783110659061 9783110616859 9783110754001 9783110753776 9783110754193 9783110753974 |
ISSN: | 2199-6962 ; |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110643022 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Tsivia Wygoda Frank. |