TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spolsky, Ellen
AU  - Spolsky,Ellen
TI  - Summoning:  Ideas of the Covenant and Interpretive Theory
SN  - 0791415260   
U1  - B55.6 
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Religion and Literature
KW  - Literature - History
KW  - Covenant Theology in Literature
KW  - Covenants- Religious Aspects
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; Power and constraint : Covenantal Hermeneutics in Milton ..........1
Theoretical Perspectives
Biblical Covenants as Performative language ....27
Facing the other : Levinas, Perelman, And Rosenzweig.......47
The difficulty of Finding a Moral Basis for Accepting the Covenant .......71
THe perpetual Covenant of Jewish Learning ..........91
THe sign of the Covenant .....115
Covenants and texts 
Redesigning redemption : Covenants in the Testament of Moses ...............131
Placing reading : Ancient israel and Medieval Europe ........155
Binding and unbinding : The Summons to interpretation in the Merchant of Venice ..........187
American Literature`s Declaration of In /Dependence : Stanley cavell, Nathaniel Hawthrone, and the Covenant of Consent ............211
Intertextuality and Reader responsibility: Living on In Malamud`s The Mourners ...........229
THe new Covenant and the dilemma of Dissensus : Bercovitech, roth, and Doctrorow ..................251

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