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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Table of Contents:
- 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