Summoning Ideas of the Covenant and Interpretive Theory
- Albany State University of New York Press 1993
- 272p
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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